Interview with Dr. Jane Fleishman | Ep #38

Interview with Dr. Jane Fleishman | Ep #38

Author: Rick Koonce May 10, 2024 Duration: 38:09

Dr. Jane Fleishman is an accomplished sexuality educator, writer, program developer, and researcher. In 2016, at the age of 62, she received her doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Widener University Center for Human Sexuality Studies after a successful career as a consultant for a large public mental health system.


In this fascinating interview with PFLAG Cape Cod's Rick Koonce, Fleishman delves deeply into the challenges LGBTQ+ seniors face as they navigate the passages of advancing age, and must deal with issues of health and wellness, self-esteem, companionship and intimacy, and continued sexual vitality and identity.


Fleishman has long believed that it's important for members of the LGBTQ+ community to redefine their ideas of sexual vitality, beauty, and desirability, and to debunk old but enduring myths about sexuality and aging.


"Wrinkles and gray hair are as beautiful as a face without wrinkles," she says, adding, "I'm a campaign to invite people to love their aging queer bodies and to upend the narrative that the only kind of beauty is associated with youth."  "That," she says, "is a binary way of looking at the world that doesn't serve you, me or anybody else in the LGBTQ+ community."


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