Apparently, baby boomers are facing an increase in STDs.

[conuly]

http://nyti.ms/11X0O8y

This makes sense. If some percentage of STDs are incurable, but can be treated, it's not surprising if older people have a higher percentage of them than younger. Especially if they fail to use safe sex practices.

The comments are full of boomers saying that we cannot reasonably blame them for disliking condoms because, after all, "there was no AIDS when we first started having sex". Of course, there really *was*, they just didn't know about it! And I'll just say it, given that they knew about other STDs, they still have no excuse. If they'd all acted a little more responsibly, maybe there wouldn't be quite the same incidence of AIDS today. Or, then again, maybe it would've just taken longer to be identified, and we'd be in pretty much the same boat.

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[redbird]

I'm not blaming people for disliking condoms. I'm blaming them for not being upfront about "I dislike condoms so much that I would rather risk your life and health, and my own, than either wear a condom or not have sex with you right now." (Yes, mutual monogamy and the right test results will protect you from already-known STDs, but that means some amount of waiting at best.)

Also, at the older edge of the Baby Boom "we got used to sex without condoms in our youth" may be true, but that's like arguing that you won't get a colonoscopy or mammogram because you didn't need one when you were 25. And that person's parents probably worried about polio and measles, which there were no vaccines for in the 1940s or early 1950s.