Comments on: WHO: Doctors failing to test seniors for HIV http://www.365gay.com/news/who-doctors-failing-to-test-seniors-for-hiv/ The daily news source for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:11:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Morgan http://www.365gay.com/news/who-doctors-failing-to-test-seniors-for-hiv/comment-page-1/#comment-45789 Morgan Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:41:36 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=5753#comment-45789 Time to stop compartmentlizing sexually active people into age groups as if seniors were never interested and/or capable of sexual desire and activity. Even 80 year seniors love sex however they can get it. I have an 80 year old gay male friend who is a very sharp, alert and healthy senior with a very good memory with a love for working with numbers who works for a tax preparation company a few months during the April 15th income tax season each year, swims once a week, drives about 3 hours to his Delaware home from DC, loves life and loves sex and has a great sense of humor. The safer sex and condom-use message needs to go out to all age groups no matter how young and how old (since people are sexually active much earlier and much later in life these days. To teach people of all ages how to be careful and how to safely enjoy sex is what is truly compassionate, since it's happening anyway. Time to stop compartmentlizing sexually active people into age groups as if seniors were never interested and/or capable of sexual desire and activity.

Even 80 year seniors love sex however they can get it. I have an 80 year old gay male friend who is a very sharp, alert and healthy senior with a very good memory with a love for working with numbers who works for a tax preparation company a few months during the April 15th income tax season each year, swims once a week, drives about 3 hours to his Delaware home from DC, loves life and loves sex and has a great sense of humor.

The safer sex and condom-use message needs to go out to all age groups no matter how young and how old (since people are sexually active much earlier and much later in life these days.

To teach people of all ages how to be careful and how to safely enjoy sex is what is truly compassionate, since it’s happening anyway.

]]> By: Gerard Koskovich http://www.365gay.com/news/who-doctors-failing-to-test-seniors-for-hiv/comment-page-1/#comment-45779 Gerard Koskovich Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:44:08 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=5753#comment-45779 Readers interested in learning more about HIV/AIDS concerns for people ages 50-plus will find extensive annotated links to relevant reports, articles and organizations via the LGBT Aging Resources Clearinghouse of the American Society on Aging. Visit http://www.asaging.org/larc. Readers interested in learning more about HIV/AIDS concerns for people ages 50-plus will find extensive annotated links to relevant reports, articles and organizations via the LGBT Aging Resources Clearinghouse of the American Society on Aging. Visit http://www.asaging.org/larc.

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