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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.
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.
