Resexualising Later Life

Paul Reynolds is Co-Convenor of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics (INSEP) and Associate Lecturer with The Open University. Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde. Paul Simpson is a Sociology Lecturer at the University of Manchester.

1. Introduction: Resexualising Older People’s Sexual and Intimate Lives - Paul Reynolds, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Paul Simpson


2. Resexualisation and Older Heterosexuals - David Lee and Josie Tetley


3. Resexualisation in Cinematic Representations of Older Lesbians and Gay Men - Paul Simpson and Megan Todd


4. Resexualising Older Bisexuals and Non-Binary Sexualities - Christopher Wells


5. Resexualising Older Disabled People’s Sexual and Intimate lives: An Outline, a Framework and A Research Agenda - Susan Gillen and Paul Reynolds


6. Older Swinging, ‘Casual’ Intimacies and Sex Outside Coupledom - Eir-Anne Edgar


7. The Alternative Aesthetics of Eroticism in Later Life - Ricardo Iacub and Feliciano Villar


8. Sex Care Workers in Dutch Nursing Home Care - Nathalie Huitema-Nuijens and Tineke Roelofs


9. Pharmaceutical Culture and the Re-Sexualization of Later Life - Barbara L Marshall


10. Older Adults’ Sex Going Digital - Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan and Liat Ayalon


11. Older Internet Dating: Ageist Prescriptions and Novel Resexualising - Chris Beasley and Mary Holmes


12. Resexualisation, Older People and Kink - Paul Reynolds


13. Conclusion: Reflecting on Resexualisation - Paul Reynolds, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Paul Simpson