Resexualising Later Life

Foreword by Raffaella Ferrero Comoletto





1. Introduction: Themes, issues and chapter synopses - Paul Reynolds, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford Letchfield





PART I: Cultures of resexualisation





2. Can wrinkles be sexy? Possibilities and constraints for an aesthetic of eroticism in later life - Feliciano Villar and Ricardo Iacub


3. Older swinging, 'casual' intimacies and sex outside coupledom - Eir-Anne Edgar


4 Resexualisation of older lesbian and gay subjects in film: an analysis of Cloudburst and Gerontophilia - Paul Simpson and Megan Todd


5. Resexualisation, later life and kink - Paul Reynolds





PART II: Technologies and practices of resexualisation





6. Pharmaceutical culture and the resexualisation of later life - Barbara L. Marshall


7. The sexuality of older persons in the digital world - Liat Ayalon and Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan


8. Older internet dating: ageist prescriptions and novel resexualising - Chris Beasley and Mary Holmes


9. Resexualisation of older adults through sex care services in Dutch nursing homes - Nathalie Huitema and Tineke Roelofs


10. Resexualising older disabled people's sexual and intimate lives: an outline, framework and research agenda - Susan Gillen and Paul Reynolds





11. Final reflections: Themes and issues arising from the volume - Paul Simpson, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Paul Reynolds