Sexuality of older people is largely invisible for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a. for many older people, sex and sexuality are intensely private matters.
b. our cultural focus on youth and that which is not young or new is no longer functional.
c. the majority of older people have lost the desire and physiological capacity to have sex.
d. suggestions of sex among elders is received with derision, condescension, humor, or shock.
ANSWER: c
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