Sexuality In The Elderly

Sexuality in the elderly

Introduction

Throughout life a person from the beginning to their end is considered as sexual beings and at no time from it can be removed from this specific aspect of life. In society for culture and gender, human sexuality is considered a phenomenon that influences the birth rate of relationships between people, as well as the experiences that live and in the environment where we develop in our day to day to day.

One of the important aspects of sexuality in people is the sexual pleasure that is an innate experience and for older adults is no exception because it generates great biopsychosocial well -being. Some of the most notable characteristics of sexuality in the elderly is a decrease in the quantity and quality of sexual contacts and it is the same desires and a higher quality in the relationship that make up their sexual activity.

Developing

Sexuality is the set of structural (anatomical) conditions, physiological, behavioral and sociocultural that allow the exercise of human sexual function, it encompasses our feelings, our behavior in general and sexual personally, as well as the way we express and relate ourselves and relateWith others, the way of living as men and women.

Old age and elderly is treated from human phenomena associated with aging, old age is considered as a result of aging, and this is contemplated as a reality that affects only part of the population. The old people are recognized as a different group from the rest of society, these are separated as a group with their own characteristics, therefore it is undeniable that old people share common characteristics, but the funny thing is that this differentiation involves greater separation from the rest of societythat the one experienced by other social groups: children, adults, officials, etc.

There are different types of old age that place the variety of their concepts.

Throughout human history, sexuality in people is nothing more than a series of anatomical and physiological functions and characteristics (sex) that are present in the body of every person, and based on it normally in society they are classified topeople for their potential to procreate. In this way these aspects are attributed to sex and is perceived as present in all societies through people’s lives.

conclusion

One of the concepts that is often manifested in societies throughout human history and that occurs, is the so -called ethnocentrism in which Sharma Agreement in 1995 is a social phenomenon that can manifest itself in any set of individualsand involves the distinction between or not belonging to the group, as well as the consideration as a superior of the life of the same individual and discrimination between groups.