Quickies: One Hundred Little Lessons for Living Sexily Ever After in Midlife

From Oprah’s top menopause expert: the bold manifesto for your best sex life yet.

"THE essential guide to claiming and savoring the wisdom, power, and world-rocking, soul-shaking sex you’ve spent a lifetime earning." —Kirsten Miller, author of The Change

"A funny, compassionate guide to inspire anyone in mid- or late life to embrace sexual changes."—Kirkus

"An ideal mashup of gyno and that one amazing best friend you tell everything... Quickies is full of the Deep Wisdom on everything your midlife sexual self needs."—Jill Hamilton, Cosmo

Step aside, stereotypes! Midlife is not a time to fade into the background.

In Quickies, Dr. Heather Bartos, OB/GYN, renowned menopause specialist, and Oprah-approved women's health advocate, delivers a witty, wise, and unapologetically bold roadmap for reclaiming sensuality, confidence, and self-love in midlife.

Packed with 100 empowering, bite-sized lessons, Quickies challenges outdated notions about aging and intimacy. From practical advice on navigating hormonal shifts to cheeky tips for spicing things up in the bedroom (or anywhere else), this groundbreaking guide invites women to embrace their evolving identities with curiosity, courage, and joy. Whether you're reigniting your spark or discovering it for the first time, Dr. Bartos's compassionate and laugh-out-loud voice makes the journey a delight.

Dr. Bartos's expertise isn't just clinical–it's deeply personal. Drawing on years of experience as a top OB/GYN and certified menopause specialist, she offers medical insights with a human touch. A certified Reiki practitioner, she also bridges the worlds of science and spirit, encouraging women to connect with their bodies on every level. And with a surprise foreword that's sure to make readers smile, Quickies delivers not just education, but celebration.

Empress Editions Publisher Alisa Kennedy Jones calls Dr. Bartos's work "a revelation," adding, "Quickies is a love letter to midlife women everywhere. It's an invitation to thrive, not just survive."

Dr. Heather Bartos's expertise has been featured in The New York Times, Cosmo, Glamour, Oprah Magazine, Refinery29, and Good Housekeeping. Now, with Quickies, she's giving midlife women everywhere the tools to live sexily ever after.

About the Author :
Dr. Heather Bartos is an OB/GYN, menopause specialist, podcaster, author, and speaker, recognized as one of the nation's top five experts in menopause by Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver.

Her mission is to dismantle the taboos surrounding menopause and sexuality, empowering women through transformative midlife transitions. Leading the Menopause Rocks(TM) and Menopause Works(TM) programs, Dr. Bartos is at the forefront of revolutionizing care for menopause, both personally and in the workplace.

Her diverse background from PR to medicine to Reiki Practitioner and service in the Navy, underscores her holistic and personalized approach to healthcare. Featured in Shape, Glamour, Refinery29, ABC News, and named "resident gynecologist" by Poosh, her insights are pivotal in changing the narrative around aging and menopause. Cosmo magazine celebrates her as a 'supremely badass gyno, ' highlighting her significant impact on women's health advocacy.

Bartos, an OB/GYN and menopause specialist, walks female readers through 100 different ways to embrace their sexuality as they age. Presented in bite-sized chunks (typically three to four pages long), these lessons tackle every aspect of intimacy and aging. Readers delve into the various factors at play and how the interactions between these factors can affect sexuality as a whole. These elements include emotional health, such as the role that gratitude can play in foreplay; social pressures, like the constant barrage of unrealistic, media-driven beauty standards; and sexual fluidity and its various configurations. The author offers many suggestions along the way for readers to make the most of her advice, such as making a "freebie fantasy list" that reflects one's ideal combination of different people, places, and scenarios to share with a sexual partner. She provides more mundane, practical tips as well, advising readers on how to properly clean sex toys or how and when to bring in outside bedroom help via a sex coach. Bartos tackles her subjects with a breezy, nonjudgmental tone (exemplified in a delightful prologue written by "Your Vagina"); her approach deftly leavens the often emotionally fraught issues of fluctuating hormones and evolving sexual urges that many women experience. Certain topics may be uncomfortable or confusing for certain readers--for example, when discussing the do's and don'ts of "vabbing" (dabbing vaginal fluids on pulse points to promote pheromone-based attraction), Bartos emphasizes that one should never touch people with "vabbed" body parts without consent--but the awkward logistics of gaining such consent are never explored. Still, the author advocates for women's sexual health in a positive and entertaining manner. The vast majority of her suggestions and advice will provide much-needed answers to often-overlooked issues.

A funny, compassionate guide to inspire anyone in mid- or late life to embrace sexual changes."-- "Kirkus "