Resexualising Later Life
Performances of Older Sexual Citizenship

Contributions by Ricardo Iacub,Barbara Marshall,Chris Beasley,Chris Wells,Liat Ayalon,Megan Todd,Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto,Eir-Anne Edgar,Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan,Feliciano Posada Villar

ISBN13: 9781447366195

Imprint: Policy Press

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 23/09/2025

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Description
Building on the work of the previous volumes in the Sex and Intimacy in Later Life series, this book explores how resexualisation may take place in later life. Drawing on transdisciplinary and international content, it provides a theoretically and experientially informed overview and discussion of resexualisation, highlighting important areas of research in a nascent area of study. This volume covers a range of sexual identities and ageing populations, blending cultural representations and current research to highlight the possible forms and practices that can lead to the creative enabling of pleasure.
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
  • Social issues & processes
  • Sexual behaviour
  • Sociology: sexual relations
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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