Title: Do or should the Elderly have sex?
Course: SOC 130 RTZ > Section: Week 4

Personal Reflections on Elderly Sexuality

As always I am looking for a critical academic response here. This topic is often talked about within private relationships, I wonder why we don't have more open conversations about sex for aged adults. Why do the youth cringe? Just some thoughts for consideration. As always, use the sentences to head your paragraph.

Please write an answer to each question about your ideas or thoughts about sexual activity for the elderly. Please post your response after the statement below so it is clear what you are responding.

1. Imagine yourself as a senior citizen. Do you plan on having romantic relationships? Why or why not?

2. What sort of romantic relationships would you like to have when you reach 50 + years old?

3. If you do not have a spouse, would you date? Have “premarital” sex? Remarry? Masturbate? Why or why not?

4. When do you think a person is too old to have sex? When do you plan to stop having sex?

5. If you are in a nursing home, what do you think would be the ideal rules to have about sexuality? What rules would you feel it was fair to impose on you?