"New Insights in Aging" by Mario Garrett This is a book, taken from a series of 500 word articles which ran on Tuesdays from September, 2010 to November, 2011, in the San Diego Union Tribune.
The good news - A 2010 AARP study reported that of adults aged 60 to 69, 42per cent of the males and 32 per cent of the females reported having had sex in the past week or month. For those 70 years and older, 22 per cent of males and 11 percent of females report having had sex at least once a month.
The bad news - The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2005 one in four older adults had HIV/AIDS, up from 2001's one in six. Now, one in seven among older adults and a third of all AIDS deaths are older adults. This is said to be because we're living longer. Unfortunately older males disdain the use of a condom.
This information was a double whammy for me in that I never thought that older folks got up to much in the way of friskiness (probably due to all of the e's I get about how seniors are falling apart) let alone the fact that so many are exposed to sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs.)
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