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...medical director of HIV Wisdom for Older Women. According to a 2000 study of Washington State residents, one of the only comprehensive analyses of STD infection among the middle-aged and older, cases of gonorrhea increased 18.2% between 1997 and 1998 among people ages 45 and older; in younger people, that increase...
...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...
...that Confucius does over people’s daily lives. The man of many proverbs has his hand in it all, from the relentless work ethic that keeps my students in school until 10 p.m. five days a week during the summer, to the drinking culture in which the younger generation must be constantly ready with a refill should an elder finish his beverage, to, unfortunately, a diminished but still prevalent tradition of sexism and intolerance of “unconventional” lifestyles...
Just one day after Lawrence, and in light of the ruling, the Kansas Supreme Court ordered reconsideration of a case involving an 18-year-old who had been sentenced to prison for 17 years for initiating oral sex on a 14-year-old boy. If the younger boy had been a girl, state law would have capped the 17-year-old's sentence to 15 months under the so-called "Romeo and Juliet" provision like the ones found in many states. In 2005, the case reached the Kansas high court, which ruled that the sentence was unconstitutional, and, citing Lawrence...
When the culture began to change in the late 1960s - when the old one-liner comics on The Ed Sullivan Show were looking pretty tired and irrelevant to a younger generation experimenting with drugs and protesting the war in Vietnam - George Carlin was the most important stand-up comedian in America. By the time he died Sunday night (of heart failure at age 71), the transformation he helped bring about in stand-up had become so ingrained that it's hard to think of Carlin as one of America's most radical and courageous popular artists...