I think seniors deserve a break. Let them be.
No. Old people sex is icky, like homosexual sex. On those grounds alone, we should ban it. Yuck.
Old people should have kids, raise us, and never have sex again. In fact, we should have a right to virgin birth. We should have the ability to safeguard our parents' dignity, much like men in Muslim countries have the right to safeguard their female relatives (from choosing to have sex, on pain of death).
Nursing home employees should carry cattle prods and such to break up the disgusting fornicators. The only sex in nursing homes should be between young employees there.
Old people owe it to us to end their lives in chastity.
I agree.
The kind of "compassionate conservatism" you espouse probably won't play very well among the mob who've collected at this august forum over the past few years, though.
Be that as it may, I'm sure no one's taken into account seniors would lose a sizable percentage of whatever meager retirement monies they're receiving if they were to get married.
In which case, it'd be our very own government's severely screwed up tax policies that'd in reality be promoting the the old timers to live in blasphemous sin, wouldn't it? ;^)
Of course the stone throwers?
...they'd never admit that.
What exactly is the point of getting married when you're over 65? Kids are out of the question. Chances are one spouse will suffer a catastrophic illness before the other, and then the survivor gets to spend their nest egg keeping the other alive (for a little while longer). And of course the kids won't be happy about splitting the inheritance with their parent's new spouse. Why not live in sin?
No doubt someone will suggest that AARP now stand for,
American Association of Retired Philanderers
I agree. I don't see the point in getting married after a certain point in life.