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Resexualising Later Life

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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 int...
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  • 21 October 2025
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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.

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Price: $119.95
Pages: 220
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Series: Sex and Intimacy in Later Life
Publication Date: 21 October 2025
ISBN: 9781447366195
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality (see also PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality), Sex and sexuality, social aspects, MEDICAL / Nursing / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Age groups: the elderly / old age, Maturation and ageing
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‘This publication makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the various intersections and issues surrounding older adult sexuality, particularly in relation to civic and civil attitudes that are negative and outdated. The editors have produced a well-researched and inspiring narrative with crucial policy and practice implications. They, along with the contributors, deserve congratulations. This is essential reading, without a doubt.’ Mervyn Eastman, Later Life Audio and Radio Co-operative and The Co-operative Guild of Social and Community Workers

Paul Reynolds is Associate Lecturer at The Open University.

Paul Simpson is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde.

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