[Partnership relations, sexuality and sexual behavior in elderly females and males after age 55. Partnership relations, sexuality and sexual reactions]. / Partnerbeziehung, Sexualität und Sexualverhalten bei älteren Frauen und Männern nach dem 55. Lebensjahr. II. Mitteilung: Partnerbeziehung, Sexualität und sexuelle Reaktion.

Women and men can have a cultivated sexual experience till a high age. The presume therefore is a sexual active life. Sexual reactions are decelerated in the elderly. The fulfillment of sexual wishes depends on the individual healthy and social situation. Masturbation is only a compensation.

[Partnership relations, sexuality and sexual behavior in elderly females and males after age 55. I. Partnership relations and sexuality from the social gynecologic and sociological viewpoint]. / Partnerbeziehung, Sexualität und Sexualverhalten bei älteren Frauen und Männern nach dem 55. Lebensjahr. I. Mitteilung: Partnerbeziehung und Sexualität aus sozialgynäkologischer und gesellschaftswissenschaftlicher Sicht.

Sexuality in elder women and men has a great psychoemotional significance. Satisfaction in sexual experience corresponds with a good quality of life. Sexuality as concrete-historical and social-cultural relation. Moral norms are equivalent with the social order and real way of life. In the socialistic moral of genders is no identification between sexuality and reproduction. Sexuality has a partnership stabilizing intimate function of communication for the elderly women and men.

[Partnership relations, sexuality and sexual behavior in elderly females and males after age 55. Results of social gynecologic and social medicine studies]. / Partnerbeziehung, Sexualität und Sexualverhalten bei älteren Frauen und Männern nach dem 55. Lebensjahr. III. Mitteilung: Sozialgynäkologische und sozialmedizinische Untersuchungsergebnisse.

Elder women more then men like traditional norms of moral conditions. The equality of rights is found by the women about 55-65 years old. The sexual activity of the elder men is little after the 52nd year of life. Sexuality and erotic relations are positive qualities of life in the age.

[Social gynecologic problems of the older female]. / Sozialgynäkologische Probleme der älteren Frau.

An analysis was made of the situation of the aged woman, above 55 years of age, in the GDR, on the basis of sociogynaecological studies into 1,500 women. The studies were undertaken by means of semistandardised questionnaires and interviews. They included medical, psychological, familial, occupational, and social aspects. A comparison between the situation of aged women in socialist countries and that in capitalist countries has cast light at the gap between the two systems and illustrated the advantages of socialism.