Sexuality of Older People Is Largely Invisible for All of the Following

question 19

Multiple Choice

Sexuality of older people is largely invisible for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• A) for many older people, sex and sexuality are intensely private matters.
• B) our cultural focus on youth and that which is not young or new is no longer functional.
• C) the majority of older people have lost the desire and physiological capacity to have sex.
• D) suggestions of sex among elders is received with derision, condescension, humor, or shock.

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