31/03/2010
Does the pharmaceutical industry limit or enlarge our understanding of sex in later life? Also, Laurie Taylor discusses the influence of race on marriage choices in South America.
Current sexual surveys reveal that many older people continue to enjoy sex. As the ageing population expands, the pharmaceutical industry has been quick to exploit opportunities to market drugs to eliminate age related sexual problems. But the sociologist Professor Barbara Marshall tells Laurie that sexual medicine is in danger of pathologising the normal processes of ageing and promoting a youth centred definition of sexuality. Also, does love overcome race in Brazilian democracy? There is a much higher intermarriage between races in South America than in Europe or the USA, Laurie explores the underlying traits which govern who marries whom in Latin American Society.
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