Scary Old Sex is a work of compelling literary fiction, one that entertains—and educates—as it draws the reader deeply into the fictional universes Arlene Heyman has created. Since the very moment this collection of short stories was released, laudatory reviews by critics have poured forth that beautifully articulate this fact. For example, from the New Yorker: “Heyman's frank tales of conjugal relations among the old—the competing desires, the jealousies, and always the particular demands of the ‘aged flesh’ itself, with its ‘papules, papillomas, skin tags, moles’—feel paradoxically taboo on the page, all the more so for the fierce candor