{"id":42207,"date":"2014-01-22T03:16:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T03:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ezekiel_emanuel-sex_and_the_single_senior_today-rapid_increases_in_s-t-d\/"},"modified":"2014-01-22T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T03:16:15","slug":"ezekiel_emanuel-sex_and_the_single_senior_today-rapid_increases_in_s-t-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42207","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Emanuel&#8211;Sex and the Single Senior Today&#8211;rapid increases in S.T.D.\u2019s among older people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;while they are having a lot of sex, seniors didn\u2019t seem to get the safe sex memo, or when it came through they ignored it because they did not think it applied to them. They obviously don\u2019t have to worry about pregnancy. And they grew up before the safe sex era. So seniors might think they have no reason to use condoms. According to the 2010 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, among college-age Americans, condoms are used in about 40 percent of sexual encounters, but only in about 6 percent of sexual encounters among those 61 and older. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that older men who use Viagra and similar drugs are six times less likely to use condoms compared with men in their 20s.<\/p>\n<p>Combine retirement communities, longer life, unfamiliarity with condoms and Viagra \u201d\u201d and what do you get? You get an S.T.D. epidemic among the Social Security generation that rivals what we imagine is happening in those \u201cAnimal House\u201d\u009d fraternities.<\/p>\n<p>These S.T.D. numbers demand that seniors take responsibility for their actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/emanuel-sex-and-the-single-senior.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/world\/stds-soar-as-retirees-relive-summer-of-love\/story-fnb64oi6-1226806985772#\">there is more here also<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;while they are having a lot of sex, seniors didn\u2019t seem to get the safe sex memo, or when it came through they ignored it because they did not think it applied to them. They obviously don\u2019t have to worry<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42207\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,103,175,168,104,129,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}