The other day I was skimming through my old developmental psychology textbook and came across the section discussing older people's sexuality, which discusses the deleterious impacts of negative attitudes against them including the "dirty old man" stereotype:

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Reading this just made me feel really sad for our elderly brothers. It's absolutely unfair that our culture instills in them such deep sexual shame that it actually dampens their sexuality. Feminists, of course, are the chief vilifiers of male sexuality, especially when it comes to older men's attraction to younger women. I think they are largely to blame for this stupid, sex-negative "dirty old man" stereotype, whose harmful effects they surely do not empathize with.

P.S.: If anyone's interested, I recently posted a brief reply overviewing the overall context of the screenshotted paragraph:

As developmental psychologists Carol K. Sigelman and Elizabeth A. Rider report in Life-Span: Human Development (8th Edition), though sexual desire declines on average with age, some elderly people do retain moderate or even high levels of it. Significantly, they attribute this decline not to biological but cultural factors, namely negative attitudes about older people's sexuality and even attractiveness, which are often internalized and consequently inhibit sexual desire.