Joe Ozzie
Legend Member
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/seniors-leading-australias-sexual-revolution/7681008
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*Names have been changed
When Emma*, a sex worker in Sydney, first started seeing clients in aged care facilities 30 years ago, she was all but wearing a cloak and dark glasses.
"You had to sneak in, pretend to be God knows what," she says.
Now, at some facilities, "it's almost like they roll out the red carpet".
When she sees one regular client, a 91-year-old Sydney man with dementia who I'll call George*, "it's understood from the highest point of management down to the nursing team on the floor [what I'm doing]," she says.
"His primary carer welcomes me when I come in, waits outside, comes back in when I help lift him onto the bed, helps me when I finish with him, and hands me the white envelope with payment. It's a pretty profound thing."
As radical as it may sound for such arrangements to take place at an aged care facility — a setting more commonly associated with games of bridge and ukulele recitals — it is just one example from the front lines of the latest sexual revolution sweeping the nation.
Older Australians living in aged care facilities are standing up and saying it loud(ish) and proud: they've got sexual needs and they're not afraid to ask that they be met.
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Good stuff!
Quote:
*Names have been changed
When Emma*, a sex worker in Sydney, first started seeing clients in aged care facilities 30 years ago, she was all but wearing a cloak and dark glasses.
"You had to sneak in, pretend to be God knows what," she says.
Now, at some facilities, "it's almost like they roll out the red carpet".
When she sees one regular client, a 91-year-old Sydney man with dementia who I'll call George*, "it's understood from the highest point of management down to the nursing team on the floor [what I'm doing]," she says.
"His primary carer welcomes me when I come in, waits outside, comes back in when I help lift him onto the bed, helps me when I finish with him, and hands me the white envelope with payment. It's a pretty profound thing."
As radical as it may sound for such arrangements to take place at an aged care facility — a setting more commonly associated with games of bridge and ukulele recitals — it is just one example from the front lines of the latest sexual revolution sweeping the nation.
Older Australians living in aged care facilities are standing up and saying it loud(ish) and proud: they've got sexual needs and they're not afraid to ask that they be met.
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Good stuff!
