Full Description
What if we reimagined ageing, illness and disability not as barriers to sexuality—but as starting points for new forms of desire, intimacy and pleasure?
This groundbreaking book challenges the silence and stigma surrounding the sexuality of older, ill and disabled people. Drawing from sociology, health studies, cultural theory and lived experience, the authors explore diverse expressions of sexuality that defy long-established views.
From queer ageing to sex work and legal rights, this collection offers bold, inclusive perspectives and policy ideas that centre pleasure, agency and dignity. A vital resource for academics, practitioners and anyone invested in social inclusion and justice.
Contents
Foreword: Prof Brian de Vries
Introduction: New Sexual Aesthetics and Older Disabled People - Ricardo Iacub, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Paul Simpson
Part 1: Identities
1. Fucking Possibilities?!: Ageing Lesbian Experiences of Disability and (Non)Sex. (Working Title) - Giulia Nazarro
2. Older Trans Survival: Body Practices, Eroticism and Disability (Working Title) - Cuauhtémoc Sanchez-Vega
3. "Vivas": A Look at Female Old Age from the Perspective of 'Artivism' [Art And/as Activism] - Rosa Cattana
Part 2: Spaces, Cultures, Representations
4. The Aesthetics of Love and Eroticism as Represented in Independent Films Concerning Dementia - Ricardo Iacub
5. Cripping Sex and Pleasure: Memoirs of Aging, Disability, and Sex (Working Title) - Elizabeth Kleinfeld
6. Sexy Daddies and Femme Daddies and Sexual Granddaddies: Oh My: The Sexual Aesthetics of Representations of Older Gay Men Aging With/into Disabilities - Jami McFarland
7. Age, Disability, Illness and Sex: Disparate and Complementary Discourses or Capitalist Intersections? - Paul Reynolds
Part 3: Policies and Practices
8. The Legal Sexual Rights of Older People in Argentina - Maria Isolina Dabove
9. Sexuality and Dementia: Navigating a 'Grey Area' - Feliciano Villar and Josep Faba
10. Ageing, Disability, and Sex Work: Enhancing Quality of Life (Working Title) - Mark Henrickson and Patricia Morgan
11. Ageism, Gender Difference and Older Physical and Learning Disabled People as Sexual Beings/Citizens - Mervyn Eastman
12. Challenging Shame, Secrecy & Stigma: Older People, Incontinence and Sexuality - Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Conclusions - Ricardo Iacub, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Paul Simpson