Sex and the Longer Life

This is an important book less perhaps because of what it says than because it has been written at all. The fact of sexuality in old people is one which society, as Dr. Felstein points out, is always eager to sweep under the carpet; and Dr. Felstein readily admits that our impressions on this subject far outrun the area of factual knowledge. There are of course many 'resistances' to embarking on the necessary enquiries?that the old, who are often bereaved of a partner and