05759oam 2200829I 450 991077970660332120230803220002.00-415-64165-91-135-12211-30-203-07580-31-135-12212-110.4324/9780203075807 (CKB)2550000001103179(EBL)1318968(OCoLC)854976327(SSID)ssj0000950061(PQKBManifestationID)12469274(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950061(PQKBWorkID)11004118(PQKB)10300080(MiAaPQ)EBC1318968(Au-PeEL)EBL1318968(CaPaEBR)ebr10736676(CaONFJC)MIL505685(OCoLC)854139316(OCoLC)976435280(FINmELB)ELB133541(EXLCZ)99255000000110317920180706d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe ethics of sex and Alzheimer's /John PortmannFirst edition.New York :Routledge,2014.1 online resource (215 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-64164-0 1-299-74434-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; Introduction: Married to Alzheimer's ; 1. Sexual Entitlement: Marriage is for Sex and Sex is for Marriage; Conjugal Rights ; A Morality Play on Conjugal Rights ; Papal Involvement in Sexless Marriages ; Impotence ; CaptivitySex and the Limits of Marriage 2. Selflessness: Opting to Live without Sex While Still Married; An Overview of Religious Thinking ; An Overview of Some Protestant Thinking ; Selfishness ; Loneliness ; Suicide ; Miracle Cures ; Moral Ideals ; Even Selfless Spouses Deserve Sex ; 3. Sex with StrangersOnce Spouses, Now Strangers The Importance of Knowing a Person ; Literary Examples ; Immoral, Illegal, or Both? ; A Case Study ; The Appeal of Sex with a Stranger ; What Does Under-Enforcement Mean? ; Legal, Maybe, But Still Perverse? ; Sexual Strangeness and Alzheimer's4. Senior Sex and Disgust The Sexual Urge ; Disgust ; After Disgust, Loneliness ; Hebrew Home for the Aged ; Twenty-First-Century Litigation in the United States ; Some day, the Tables May Turn ; 5. Desertion ; Desertion of Children ; Desertion After Dating ; Desertion of SpousesUnintentional Desertion Conclusion ; 6. The Sexually Deprived in American Prisons ; Prisons and Conjugal Visits ; Rape in Prison ; Rape in Prison: A Duty to Know? ; Current State Policies: Heterosexual ; Conjugal Visits for Homosexuals ; Indifference as "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"Living Without Intimacy is Hard, But Who Cares?<P>A growing epidemic, Alzheimer's punishes not only its victims but also those married to them. This book analyzes how Alzheimer's is quietly transforming the way we think about love today. Without meaning to become rebels, many people who find themselves ""married to Alzheimer's"" deflate the predominant notion of a conventional marriage. By falling in love again before their ill spouse dies, those married to Alzheimer's come into conflict with central values of Western civilization - personal, sexual, familial, religious, and political. Those who wait sadly for a spouse's death must sometimSexual ethicsAlzheimer's diseasePatientsSexual behaviorAlzheimer's diseasePatientsFamily relationshipsOlder peopleSexual behaviorMarried peopleSexual behaviorAdulteryCelibacySexual ethics.Alzheimer's diseasePatientsSexual behavior.Alzheimer's diseasePatientsFamily relationships.Older peopleSexual behavior.Married peopleSexual behavior.Adultery.Celibacy.306.7084/6Portmann John.955973MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779706603321The ethics of sex and Alzheimer's3847152UNINA