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By Merryn Gott
·What elements underpin dominant understandings of later lifestyles sexuality? · How do older humans adventure and prioritise sexuality and sexual future health? ·What sexual health and wellbeing concerns are proper to older humans and the way are those addressed through wellbeing and fitness care execs? this is often the 1st ebook to combine theoretical insights into sexuality, sexual health and wellbeing and growing older, with examine findings from stories carried out with older humans and the pros that paintings with them. The publication is divided into 3 sections. within the first part stereotypes that typify modern understandings of sexuality and growing older are explored, fairly the ‘myth of asexual outdated age’ and the newer stereotype of the ‘sexy oldie’. part identifies what we really learn about growing old and sexuality by means of reviewing present literature, in addition to providing findings from one of many first qualitative stories to discover sexuality from the point of view of older humans themselves. the ultimate part of the e-book explores what ‘sexual wellbeing and fitness’ potential in the context of getting older and specializes in concerns appropriate to health and wellbeing execs operating with older humans. Sexuality, Sexual overall healthiness and growing older presents key analyzing for college kids, researchers, practitioners and policymakers operating inside of gerontology, sociology, psychology, social paintings, overall healthiness sciences, nursing and medication. This publication is probably going to turn into crucial interpreting for all teachers and pros operating with older humans or within the quarter of sexual healthiness.
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Html) Outward bodily signs … [are] mirrors of morality, … So too, our bodies are mirrors of mortality. (Blaikie 1999: 86) BL2119 ch 02 25/11/2004 6:11 PM Page 33 The ‘sexy oldie’ 33 In the previous chapter, the increasing trend to conflate an inherent sexuality with an exterior ‘sexiness’, or beauty, was discussed. It was argued that, to be perceived as sexual, older people, and older women in particular, have to conform to contemporary youthful standards of sexual attractiveness. Not only is the older body not deemed sexually attractive, it is held up as the very antithesis of sexuality and beauty.
Whether you consider you have a sexual problem or not appears largely irrelevant. Against this background, it is unsurprising that older people are deemed ‘dysfunctional’. Increases in the incidence of erectile dysfunction and vaginal dryness with age can make sexual intercourse problematic for some and this is certainly stressed in the literature. For example, Bancroft argues that ‘there is an undoubted decline in the sexuality of both men and women with BL2119 ch 02 32 25/11/2004 6:11 PM Page 32 Sexuality, sexual health and ageing advancing years’ (1983: 282), and exemplifies this by citing figures showing evidence that older people report lower ‘levels’ of interest in and rates of sexual intercourse than they experienced when they were younger.
For example, Bancroft argues that ‘there is an undoubted decline in the sexuality of both men and women with BL2119 ch 02 32 25/11/2004 6:11 PM Page 32 Sexuality, sexual health and ageing advancing years’ (1983: 282), and exemplifies this by citing figures showing evidence that older people report lower ‘levels’ of interest in and rates of sexual intercourse than they experienced when they were younger. He acknowledges that this ‘catalogue of decline may seem gloomy’ (1983: 288). However, his list of sexual problems which accompany ageing is perhaps not as gloomy as that provided by a special edition of the journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy (2002) on ‘Sex and intimacy in older people’, which includes five papers on sexuality within the context of mental health problems (the implication being that all older people are either battling depression or dementia which has an important, negative effect on their sex life).