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Geriatric sexology is the systematic study of sexuality
Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
 in the elderly. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilia
Paraphilia

Paraphilia refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotype normal, consenting adult human partners....
s and disorders of or relating to sex
Sex

In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetics traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into male and female types ....
 and the sex organ
Sex organ

A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, as narrowly defined, is any of the anatomical parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; in mammals, these include:...
s. The field covers physiological and psychological aspects of sexuality and its disorders.






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Geriatric sexology is the systematic study of sexuality
Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
 in the elderly. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilia
Paraphilia

Paraphilia refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotype normal, consenting adult human partners....
s and disorders of or relating to sex
Sex

In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetics traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into male and female types ....
 and the sex organ
Sex organ

A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, as narrowly defined, is any of the anatomical parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; in mammals, these include:...
s. The field covers physiological and psychological aspects of sexuality and its disorders.