{"id":5534,"date":"2024-05-03T14:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:27:02","slug":"how-older-daters-are-coping-with-the-surge-in-s-t-i-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5534","title":{"rendered":"How Older Daters are Coping With the Surge in S.T.I.s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Older daters are not getting adequate screening and protection from S.T.I.s. Here\u2019s how to be a safer sexually active senior.<\/p>\n

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Since her marriage of more than 20 years ended in divorce, Amy, a 62-year-old Texan, has had a couple of committed relationships and a handful of sexual partners.<\/p>\n

Amy is currently seeing a man she described as a \u201cfriend with benefits,\u201d but it\u2019s nothing she takes too seriously. What she does take seriously is talking to him \u2014 and every partner \u2014 about safe sex practices amid rising rates of sexually transmitted infections in seniors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very aware of it,\u201d said Amy, who asked to use only her middle name to protect her privacy. \u201cI require proof of negative testing before I become intimate with anyone.\u201d She also insists on using a condom.<\/p>\n

Between 2012 and 2022, rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia more than doubled among those 55 and older, according to data<\/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Research suggests many older people are unaware of these risks<\/a>, and that\u2019s keeping them from adequate screening and practicing safer sex.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Joan Price, a sex educator who focuses on senior sexuality and who is the author of \u201cNaked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex,\u201d said she was struck by the variety of reasons older daters may not practice safe sex, or even talk about it with partners.<\/p>\n

She often hears some version of, \u201cOh, I can\u2019t get pregnant,\u201d she said, or \u201cOur age group doesn\u2019t get S.T.I.s.\u201d Men have told her they were reluctant to talk about barrier methods of protection because their erections were unpredictable, and using a condom made them go away.<\/p>\n

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Older daters are not getting adequate screening and protection from S.T.I.s. Here\u2019s how to be a safer sexually active senior.Since her marriage of more than 20 years ended in divorce, Amy, a 62-year-old Texan, has had a couple of committed relationships and a handful of sexual partners.Amy is currently seeing a man she described as a \u201cfriend with benefits,\u201d but it\u2019s nothing she takes too seriously. What she does take seriously is talking to him \u2014 and every partner \u2014 about safe sex practices amid rising rates of sexually transmitted infections in seniors.\u201cI\u2019m very aware of it,\u201d said Amy, who asked to use only her middle name to protect her privacy. \u201cI require proof of negative testing before I become intimate with anyone.\u201d She also insists on using a condom.Between 2012 and 2022, rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia more than doubled among those 55 and older, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Research suggests many older people are unaware of these risks, and that\u2019s keeping them from adequate screening and practicing safer sex.Joan Price, a sex educator who focuses on senior sexuality and who is the author of \u201cNaked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex,\u201d said she was struck by the variety of reasons older daters may not practice safe sex, or even talk about it with partners.She often hears some version of, \u201cOh, I can\u2019t get pregnant,\u201d she said, or \u201cOur age group doesn\u2019t get S.T.I.s.\u201d Men have told her they were reluctant to talk about barrier methods of protection because their erections were unpredictable, and using a condom made them go away.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5536,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5537,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}