Despite evidence of a more sexually active third age, ageing and later life (50+) are still commonly represented as a process of desexualisation.
Challenging this assumption and ageist stereotypes, this interdisciplinary volume investigates the experiential and theoretical landscapes of older peoples sexual intimacies, practices and pleasures. Contributors explore the impact of desexualisation in various contexts and across different identities, orientations, relationships and practices.
This enlightening text, reflecting international scholarship, considers how we can distinguish the real challenges faced by older people from the prejudices imposed on them.
Series Editor Introduction - Paul Simpson, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and
Paul Reynolds
Foreword - Ketki Ranade
1. Introduction to the Volume: Themes, Issues and
Chapter Synopses - Paul
Simpson, Paul Reynolds and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
2. Consent and Sexual Literacy for Older People - Paul Reynolds
3. At YOUR Age???!!!: the Constraints of Ageist Erotophobia on Older
Peoples Sexual and Intimate Relationships - Paul Simpson
4. The Aesthetic(s) of the Eroticism in Old Age - Ricardo Iacub and Feliciano
Villar
5. Menopause and the Menoboom: How Older Women are Desexualised by Culture
- Clare Anderson.
6. Ageing, Physical Disability and Desexualisation - Susan Gillen and Paul
Reynolds.
7. Ageing, Intellectual Disability and Desexualisation - Susan Gillen and
Paul Reynolds
8. Dancing in- or out-of-step? Sexual and Intimate Relationships among
Heterosexual Couples Living with Alzheimers Disease - Linn J. Sandberg.
9. Older People Living in Long-term Care: No Place for Old Sex? - Feliciano
Villar and Josep Faba
10. Ageing and the LGBTI+ Community: a Case Study of Australian Care Policy -
Jane Youell
11. The role of professionals and service providers in supporting sexuality
and intimacy in later life: theoretical and practice perspectives - Trish
Hafford-Letchfield
12. Final reflections: themes and issues arising from the volume on
desexualisation in later life- Paul Simpson, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and
Paul Reynolds
Paul Simpson has lectured at several northwest universities, including the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, and is currently an independent academic.
Paul Reynolds is Co-Convenor of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics (INSEP) and Associate Lecturer with The Open University.
Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde.
