Shouldn't seniors practice chastity?

[Eagle_Papa]

In the contemporary Church I hear little from the pulpit about chastity. Catholic Answers has done a great service in the area of youth chastity through the work of Jason Evert. No where do I hear Catholic teaching about chastity for singles who are, say, over 60. What about that? I believe there are Catholics who think there’s nothing wrong with unchaste behavior for seniors. What do you say?

 

[Michelle_Arnold]

Chastity is for everyone: Young, old, single, married, divorced, widowed, consecrated religious, ordained, and all other states of life. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man’s belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman. The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift (CCC 2337).

For lay seniors, chastity means that the person is chaste according to his state in life. If he is married, he is faithful to his spouse and observes the appropriate boundaries within which marital relations are practiced. If he is divorced or widowed, he observes the complete abstinence from sexual activity expected by the Church of any unmarried person.