Sexuality provides the opportunity to express feeling of love, strong feelings of pleasure and wonder, and true and positive statements of one’s body and its functioning. Many people judge others because of a stereotype or based off of what others say. I think that, as a community of people we tend to suggest that as we get older we lose interest in being sexual. Sexuality is something that is looked at as a younger generation activity for either just fun, or for reproduction. Younger individuals tend to come up with the idea that older people don’t do many sexy or spontaneous things. Judging a book by its cover, people should never do that. When looking at older people in a sexual manner, people sometimes find it to be disturbing. I choose this cartoon image because it shows a man broadcasting live, asking an elderly couple “what do you think about this study that says senior citizens are having sex two or three times a month?” and the older gentleman answered in a joking but serious way “that’s all?”. You can see that the woman started blushing by his comment back to the broadcaster. Which shows that they found it to be hilarious, because it isn’t true. This is an example of someone judging others based off of what others say or assume. He obviously did a test, asking people how many times do you think the elderly are sexuality active? and that’s what society choose. They gathered this information based off the assumption of the younger generation. The cartoon makes you believe that older people partake in sexual activities more than the younger minded people believe. It’s protruded as so because of how the elderly man answered back to the broadcaster with what he was asking him. This cartoon showed me that just because society says things about older people doesn’t mean that it’s true. Even though the words on the illustration was brief and didn’t say many words, it spoke high volumes to me. I feel that young individuals shouldn’t be the only people to be able to feel the pleasure of having sex. We shouldn’t look at older people and think they only have sexual relations a couple of times a month. We could come across elderly people who have nothing wrong with them and have an extremely active sexual life. Some people verbally and physically show their disgust with elder sexuality. I myself find it to be adorable when elderly people show love in public. I want my husband and I to be one of those elderly couples who, have a great sexual life. When I walk past a older couple doing something as small as holding hands, or giving each other a kiss, it makes me smile. When I see it I usually look to my husband and tell him “aw, that’s going to be us when we get older”, it’s a beautiful thing. Other reasons why people may believe the older you become the less sexually active you are, is because it can be true. Sometimes the elderly has no choice but to not be sexually active. As the elderly get older they are faced with illness or their body weakening. It sometimes becomes a difficult task to have sex or any other type of sexual relation. It could be that they don’t have the energy to or they just can’t. What I mean by they “can’t”, is that they have an illness that doesn’t allow them to be sexually active. Some problems that elderly people have that could decrease your ability wanting or having sex is, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, chronic pain, and diabetes because of the medicines used to treat it. Older women ability to enjoy
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They also begin to have problems with getting “in the mood” for sex in general. “Men with erectile dysfunction, once called impotence, have trouble getting or sustaining an erection long enough to have sex. It 's a common condition, affecting as many as 30 million American men. Erectile dysfunction affects older men more than younger men. About 1% of men in their 40s, 17% of men in their 60s, and nearly 50% of men 75 or older aren 't able to achieve an erection sufficient for intercourse” says Harvard Health Publications. Even though some older men have issues having sex it doesn’t mean that they don’t want
They also begin to have problems with getting “in the mood” for sex in general. “Men with erectile dysfunction, once called impotence, have trouble getting or sustaining an erection long enough to have sex. It 's a common condition, affecting as many as 30 million American men. Erectile dysfunction affects older men more than younger men. About 1% of men in their 40s, 17% of men in their 60s, and nearly 50% of men 75 or older aren 't able to achieve an erection sufficient for intercourse” says Harvard Health Publications. Even though some older men have issues having sex it doesn’t mean that they don’t want