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Pathways to pleasure: Older adult women's reflections on being sexual beings
Kate A Morrissey Stahl1, Jerry Gale2, Denise C Lewis2
1a School of Social Work , University of Georgia , Athens , Georgia , USA.
Abstract:
Older adult women make up a growing part of the population, and yet literature on the sexual activity over their life spans is lacking. This qualitative interview study explored the experience of 16 women aged 57-91 to better understand sexual pleasure over a lifetime. The participants described having to challenge cultural rules to create a supportive environment for sexual expression. Having access to Novel contexts in which to learn, cultivating Intimacy with partners and with oneself, being Creative with sexual activities, and Extending one's sense of sexual possibility into advanced age (NICE) supported sexual pleasure as women aged.
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