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 by Brian de Vries
1. Introduction to the Volume: Motives, Themes, Issues and Chapter Synopses - Ricardo Iacub, Paul Simpson and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
2. From New Possibilities to Late Onset Affordances: Reflections on Lesbian Experiences of Ageing, Disability and (Non-)Sex - Giulia Nazzaro, Nika Looman, Katrien de Graeve
3. Old Hen Makes Good Broth: Body Practices, Eroticism and Disability in Older Binary Trans Women's Bodies - Cuauhtémoc Sanchez-Vega
4. Ageing, Disability and Sex: Older Lesbians Aging Into Physical Disability - Debra Harley
5. "Vivas": A Look at Female Aging from Art-Activism - Rose Cattana
6. Aesthetics of Eroticism in Older People with Dementia Portrayed in Contemporary Cinema - Ricardo Iacub, Paul Simpson
7. Cripping Sex as We Age: Caregiver Memoirs and Anti-Ableist Approaches to Sex - Elizabeth Kleinfeld
8. Sexy, Sick, Grand Daddies: Cultural Representations of Cross-Generational Intimacy and Older Gay Men Aging With/Into Disabilities - Jami McFarland
9. Decoding the Sexual Aesthetics of Illness, Disability and Later Life: Towards a Marxist Critique - Paul Reynolds
10. Sexuality and Folly in Old Age: How Far Do Rights Go? - Maria Isolina Dabove
11. Sexuality and Dementia: Navigating a Grey Area - Josep Fabà and Feliciano Villar
12. Coming with Heart: Sex Work with Older and Disabled People - Mark Henrickson and Patricia Morgan
13. Ageism, Gender Difference and Older Physically Disabled and Learning Disabled People as Sexual Citizens - Mervyn Eastman
14. Is There Sex After Incontinence in Later Life? Towards a New Aesthetic - Trish Hafford-Letchfield
15. Final Reflections and Overarching Themes: New Sexual Aesthetics and Older, Disabled People - Paul Simpson, Trish-Hafford-Letchfield and Ricardo Iacub
