SIECUS Report articles from December 1 2001

SIECUS Report archives from December 1 2001

Let's do away with the stereotype of older people as sexless. (From the Editor).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
December 1, 2001... Up until the time I started going to the health club at 6:30 each morning--to keep this 50-plus body in shape--I watched the Today Show each morning as I dressed for work. They had a regular segment on "seniors" that had a tag line that said...

A priority: quality sexual health for older Americans. (From the President).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
December 1, 2001... Even though we have compiled an impressive group of articles for this issue, I am amazed by the confounding lack of information about sexual health issues as they relate to older Americans. Why such a void? Perhaps it's because people...

Women's sexuality as they age: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
December 1, 2001... With the aging of the baby boomers and the development and hugely successful marketing of Viagra[R] to treat erectile dysfunction, attention from sexologists, pharmaceutical companies, and the public has become focused on the sexuality of aging...

HIV and AIDS in people over 50.
December 1, 2001... Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be. (from Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning) Lovers have long appropriated Browning's reflections on the properties of aging to describe the ideal of a romantic, singular relationship that begins...

Gay and lesbian aging.
December 1, 2001... Research on the lives and well being of older gay men and lesbians was virtually nonexistent 30 years ago. As such, information was based principally on anecdotal evidence, myth, and stereotype. Unfortunately, this presumed knowledge was...

Mature sexuality: patient realities and provider challenges.
December 1, 2001... Interest in sex is not limited to the young. Yet it is only in recent years that "mature sexuality" has begun to surface as a public issue, one that health care providers find themselves addressing with growing numbers of patients. Our...

Grandparents as sexuality educators: having our say.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... One of the old canards is that grandchildren and their grandparents are natural allies, since they both have the generation in between them as their natural enemies. We eschew this premise while nonetheless acknowledging that since grandparents...

President Bush and U.S. congress agree on labor, HHS, and Education spending bills. (Policy Update).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... After much debate, members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have agreed on a bill to fund the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education for fiscal year 2002. The approval came more...