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...perhaps the most critical reason is older generations' lack of sex ed. Many older adults may have an outdated view of safe sex, believing that condoms are unnecessary after menopause or with partners they already know. Lee points out that "as people get older, they don't worry about pregnancy as much," and without education about STDs, many believe an inability to get pregnant negates the necessity for protection...
Thousands of adults like Fowler find themselves renegotiating sex in singlehood, after years or even decades of marriage, and they are in need of the same kind of sex-ed their grandchildren get. In a University of Chicago survey of single women ages 58 to 93, nearly 60% said they didn't use a condom the last time they had sex. A May 2008 study conducted by the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed that among single people with at least two sexual partners, 56% of people over age 45 reported using condoms the last time they...
...worries that too many doctors avoid the topic because they feel uncomfortable discussing it with older patients, or worse, they make the "dangerous assumption that older people are not engaging in sex after a certain age." That lack of communication perpetuates ignorance. So, Lee says that until comprehensive sex-ed measures are established for older people, it may fall to younger generations to teach their elders about the birds and the bees. "It used to be that you encourage parents to talk to their kids," says Lee, "but now we're encouraging kids to talk to their parents - and grandparents...
...HUDS team's plated menu featured "seafood chowder with snapper, scallops, mussels, and roasted corn…salad of pan-seared strawberries, goat cheese, baby greens, and toasted almonds," and "pan-roasted breast of duck with sautéed yellow beets, green bean bundle, and chateaux potatoes with a port wine sauce...
...Wisconsin and starring a mute boy who breeds dogs It's a big-hearted piece of old-school storytelling that feels short at 566 pages A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. And who love--or tolerate--dogs PERSONAL DAYS By Ed Park Some office drones work at a moribund company. That's really all Park needs Never have the minutiae of office life been so lovingly cataloged and collated The Mezzanine, Then We Came to the End (a book it superficially resembles, but only superficially) CHILD 44 By Tom Rob Smith...