There are no sex toys or pornography lining the tidy halls. But when a new person moves in, they're immediately offered an informal discussion on intimacy and desire. | via philstarlife
"It's a good book!" 97-year-old Nils exclaims, skimming through a brochure on sexual relations and desires among seniors, in the common room at his retirement home in Sweden.
"The counselor has a conversation with the client and asks him or her some of the questions we've established about sexual health," Lindgarden director Liselott Klang, 54, told AFP. To make the seniors feel more comfortable, the establishment has put together a"pleasure basket" with creams and sex toys the residents can buy.
For residents, the issue has also become easier to discuss directly with the carers, who look after all their basic needs. In the common room, Nils and his friends joke about the subject but shy away from discussing it with strangers.Klang says the project has been met with"positive reactions, a lot of humor, curiosity, but also a certain shyness."