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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Sexual Entitlement; Chapter 2 Selflessness; Chapter 3 Sex with Strangers; Chapter 4 Senior Sex and Disgust; Chapter 5 Desertion; Chapter 6 The Sexually Deprived in American Prisons; Chapter 7 Film and Fiction as Moral Cues; Chapter 8 Sexual Generosity;
Biography
John Portmann is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He studied philosophy at Yale and Cambridge Universities. He is the author of When Bad Things Happen to Other People (2000), Sex and Heaven (2003), and A History of Sin (2007).
"John Portmann is to be applauded for tackling a challenging and complex issue that he rightly points out is largely unacknowledged but that will only become more important as the mass of Baby Boomers continues to age." -- Stephen Sapp, University of Miami
