Challenging this assumption and ageist stereotypes, this interdisciplinary volume investigates the experiential and theoretical landscapes of older people's 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.

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Yes, you can access Desexualisation in Later Life by Simpson, Paul,Reynolds, Paul,Paul Simpson,Paul Reynolds,Trish Hafford-Letchfield in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gerontology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Series Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Notes on editors and contributors
Series editors’ introduction
Foreword by Ketki Ranade
1 Introduction to volume two: themes, issues and chapter synopses
2 Consent and sexual literacy for older people
3 ‘At YOUR age???!!!’: the constraints of ageist erotophobia on older people’s sexual and intimate relationships
4 The aesthetic(s) of eroticism in later life
5 Menopause and the ‘menoboom’: how older women are desexualised by culture
6 Ageing, physical disability and desexualisation
7 Ageing, intellectual disability and desexualisation
8 Dancing in- or out-of-step? Sexual and intimate relationships among heterosexual couples living with Alzheimer’s disease
9 Older people living in long-term care: no place for old sex?
10 Ageing and the LGBTI+ community: a case study of Australian care policy
11 The role of professionals and service providers in supporting sexuality and intimacy in later life: theoretical and practice perspectives
12 Final reflections: themes and issues arising from the volume on desexualisation in later life
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