Theoretical narratives relating to the aging body in social gerontology are slowly developing. While the “body” as a concept implies an objectified and “natural” entity, the body is now beginning to be viewed as increasingly complex. We all inhibit a specific, gendered, human body. The body, at once, is our means of freedom and location of our enslavement. Indeed, the importance of the body to gerontology is in many ways obvious. For example, the body in pain, illness, can limit functions of the body and this can have effects that stimulates the interest of social gerontologists of all backgrounds globally.