Désir et sexualité au fil du vieillissement

Social representations of sexuality in the elderly are often associated with perversion, as if the latter were a deviation from the moral system. In an era of sociological disruption where forbidden is modified and borderline between public and private changes, despite physiological and statistical aspects, sexuality in the elderly appears to be identified through an aging body and the activated, or reactivated, mental conflicts of growing old. The human aspect of sexuality at an old age is certainly the reason for the discomfort observed by the non-senior adults and caretakers, notably in certain counter-transfer attitudes. Without idealizing sexuality in the elderly, which would be more pure and human, it would be important not to stigmatise those who have succeeded in constructing themselves as a man or a woman and make them pay for our own insufficiency in building an identity, by preventing them from expressing their sexuality, in the sanest possible manner, with dignity.