ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author explores the emergence of a discourse of well-being in later life centring on the embrace of senior sexuality. He examines the institutions and organisations that are involved in commenting on the performance of older persons’ sexuality, and analyse the assumptions and concepts that inform contemporary discourses on aging and sexuality. Although literature on the sexuality of older persons remains scarce, especially when compared to that on younger persons, these materials represent dominant genres of writing about the sexuality of older persons in East Asia. In the 1960s, the focus of sexual health activists gradually moved away from reproduction – and related concerns such as contraception and abortion – towards sexual pleasure, well-being, and sexual rights. The sexologists say that single older persons could benefit from finding partners and becoming couples.
