Wanna?
Posted on 05/27/2006 2:29:41 AM PDT by lauriehelds
Doctors said sexually transmitted diseases among senior citizens are running rampant at a popular Central Florida retirement community, according to a Local 6 News report.
A gynecologist at The Villages community near Orlando, Fla., said she treats more cases of herpes and the human papilloma virus in the retirement community than she did in the city of Miami.
"Yeah, they are very shocked (to hear the diagnosis)," gynecologist Dr. Colleen McQuade said. "I had a patient in her 80s."
"More and more senior citizens are ending up in the gynecologist office, and their diagnosis is a sexually transmitted disease," Local 6 reporter Vanessa Medina said.
Local 6 featured Louis Franklin, who used to date in the community at least three times a week.
"I have had a better dating life since I have been here than I have ever had," Franklin said. "I know there are things going around."
A doctor blamed Viagra, a lack of sex education and no risk for pregnancy for the spike in sexually transmitted diseases at The Villages.
"All I can repeat are the things I have heard which are things like, 'Should I bring the little blue pills over tonight?'" community singles group president Richard Matwyshen said.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
something to look forward to for gen x'ers
Bump for later.
OMG!
I was about to have breakfast. Suddenly, I have no appetite....
Isn't The Villages the place advertised on FNC from time to time? I am beginning to have ideas about some possible re-wordings of their annoying jingle.
"running rampant at a popular Central Florida retirement community"
There are one or two people changing the neighborhood temporarily.
Burglary is like this, the neighborhood doesn't change, a couple of new guys move in until they are caught or move on.
OMG! II
I've heard the same thing about the Sun City retirement community here in Arizona, that the most prevalent illness among the seniors is VD. Man, I can't wait to be 80.
A doctor blamed Viagra, a lack of sex education and no risk for pregnancy
Boomers never change, it appears.
"Boomers never change, it appears."
boomers are between 60 and 42.
LACK OF SEX EDUCATION!
When is that old line going to get a rest? These people are older than the hills, living in the old USA where sex flows from the media devices like a river. Give me a break.
Troubling, but not really unexpected. Both diseases are far more common than many people realize. HPV, in particular, has become so common place most sexually active people in the U.S. have been exposed to it at one time or another. Most strains are harmless, but a few have been linked to cervical cancer in women.
It's also linked to genital warts. At their age, it's hard to tell age spots, skin tags, moles, and warts apart.
Blech!
It's the pizza delivery guy what's doing it!
I might be wrong, but I think the strains most likely to cause warts are also the ones most often associated with cervical cancer.
Either way, blech indeed!
Unintended consequences from viagra?
I think this is the point where someone is supposed to say: 'Sounds just like something a math-challenged X'er would say.'
"It's the pizza delivery guy what's doing it!"
Wasn't that part of an old Cheech & Chong routine ("Hey lady, did you order a pepperoni pizza?") ?
A. Who does this doctor think she is? This info should be confidential.
B. Let 'em alone, for Pete's sake! It's nobody's business.
What an appalling invasion of privacy!
For every one with blue pills there are ten wannabes.
For every one with blue pills there are ten wannabes. They aren't called dirty old men for nothing.
Wanna?
Guess Kramer must be back at Del Boca Vista.
Looks like "The Golden Girls" served its purpose.
Yeah, but......they have 18 golf courses!!!!!!!!!
Dear kb2614,
"Dr. Colleen McQuade said[,] 'I had a patient in her 80s.'"
Those aren't mostly (or perhaps even at all) baby boomers. Folks in their 80s are the last of the "Greatest Generation."
The oldest boomers are just turning 60 this year.
Most of these folks are those who were born either in the years before, or during the Great Depression, a few during WWII, and maybe a few of the older boomers thrown in (at least in our area, the old folks communities start herding people in at 55).
sitetest
Exactly -- these aren't boomers, who won't arrive at retirement communities for another 15 years -- IF they can afford it them.
This that "Greatest Generation" again. IE boomers mom and pop -- Marion Cunningham and the captain from The Love Boat.
"Another mystery of life question--will ninety year old women look good to me when I am ninety? :-)"
No
Exactly
No, but 75 year olds will be hot
LOL
This 43 year old and most people I meet my age have nothing in common with the boomers. I always thought the low end of the boomer / GenX'er sliding rule needed some serious adjustment.
Hey...the Medicare Drug Plan pays for Viagra now and then Medicare pays for all the drugs to get the geezers over their STDs. Thank you, taxpayers of the US. Louis Franklin is screwing you too. (This is certainly bad PR for The Villages, though. I'll always think of a STD pest hole now when I see their ads.)
Do you really believe this crap? Come on it's from a t.v. news cast. You can't get much lower than this.
Do you object to the possibility that elderly people may have a sexually transmited disease or that many elderly people actually enjoy sexually intercourse?
What age have you chosen for people to cease having a sex life?
You might even have chosen an age when you have determined that people should die.
Almost sounds as if your are a U.S. senator or Congressman, making choices for us that you have no right to be making.
If they're getting that much action, no wonder it's popular!
ROTFL! I can just see a bunch of horny old men running around the halls in their droopy drawers, clutching a bottle of Viagra in one hand and their joystick in the other.
Ummm yeah, that is just disgusting.....
This seems to explain a lot about FL. lol
this is just sick and wrong, lol!
I resent that! I'm 55, work full-time, look pretty good and am considering adopting children! Yes, I am a little nuts, but that's not age related. I was always a little nuts. 
Oh sure. You say that now, but just wait till they think you're the hottest thing in the old folks home!
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :)
OMG III
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