Changing norms of older men's sexuality in the sexological discourse during Czechoslovak socialism: Dementia as an interpretative lens to make sense of sexual expressions in later life
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F25%3A10481114" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/25:10481114 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13634607241242605" target="_blank" >10.1177/13634607241242605</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Changing norms of older men's sexuality in the sexological discourse during Czechoslovak socialism: Dementia as an interpretative lens to make sense of sexual expressions in later life
Original language description
This article examines the development of medical (primarily sexological) knowledge about older men's sexuality during Czechoslovak socialism. Analysing medical and criminological journals, sexological textbooks and popular-science publications, and inspired by Ian Hacking's theory of making up people (1995), we track how Czechoslovak experts created new kinds of older people. We show that the founder of Czechoslovak sexology, Josef Hynie, implemented the kind of older men with dementia with pathological sexuality into sexological discourse in 1940. In the following decades, medical experts omitted older men's sexuality or debated it solely in the context of paedophilic delinquency, thus perpetuating Hynie's ideas about the pathological sexuality of men with dementia until the second half of the 1970s. We explain how the classification was subsequently replaced by a new kind of healthy older men with active sexuality, which the sexologists made up hand in hand with incorporating new knowledge about sexual delinquents and changing ideas about active ageing. We argue that dementia served for the experts as a tool for defining what could be seen as normal or pathological ageing as well as normal or pathological ageing male sexuality. Finally, we highlight that the liberalisation of ageing male sexuality occurred in socialist Czechoslovakia at approximately the same time as in Western capitalist countries.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-16738S" target="_blank" >GA21-16738S: Social life of dementia: cultural representations and subjective attitudes</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sexualities
ISSN
1363-4607
e-ISSN
1461-7382
Volume of the periodical
28
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1296-1313
UT code for WoS article
001191855100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105003283969