False beliefs about sexuality

Our culture devalues ​​heavily the last stage of life, aging, and a phase change can be as successful as any other, especially when you can enjoy an acceptable state of health. But if this basic aspect is given, the degree of experience of these years not only depend on the individual, society exerts great influence, full of erroneous mystifications that discredit this stage, considering it rather as a stage finished, run down and with a perception of older people as "old" Nonprofit, invalid towards life, and in most cases cruel as hindrances.

The cultural negativity in relation to the sexual life in advanced years is reflective of an attitude and prejudice against the individual by virtue of being more , plates of uncompromising, senile with a moral step, out-building, just without social value that compensates for its shortcomings ... This applies to sexuality, is the ultimate manifestation of the asexuación, "If you get older, you're finished." So , the environment has on the elderly population the belief and acceptance of a stereotypical role, sometimes seeing older people as "misfits". This false belief plays an important role in self-esteem, self-confidence, self-efficacy, physical performance, social, sexual.

The desire to have sex and be physically able to carry out a sexual relationship depends intimately on our perception of ourselves . If the elders accept the idea that they are unattractive or incapable from a sexual point of view, interest, activity and performance during sexual activity would be affected the most negative way. In short, the sexuality of the elderly is deeply influenced cultural stereotypes by many who reject the normality of the feelings and sexual abilities at that stage of life cycle. Although poor health and lack of a partner can complicate sexual performance, there is no reason to justify itself that older people should forgo or interrupt the enjoyment of sex.