Posted on 01/26/2009 5:36:34 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
No but Sarah Palin made a few trips there campaigning in 2008.
velociraptors?
From the article is this deceptive journalism:
“The huge complex began growing rapidly in the mid-1990s, and reported cases of gonorrhea rocketed from 152 to 245, of syphilis rose from 17 to 33, and of chlamydia from 52 to 115 among those 55 and older in Florida from 1995 to 2005.”
It desperately wants to give you the impression that these upper-middle class retirees in this community are responsible for the increase in STDEs. but the numbers, are statewide, and could be made up primarily of old hookers, skid row drunks, and the like.
7 million Floridians over 55, and 400 have STDs. That’s about 1 in 20,000. On average, there would be three in this entire community, if these upscale horndogs were typical.
I live at The Villages. What an insult? A writer can find "dirt" anywhere if he looks hard enough. Go to a nightclub and talk to floozies, then write a story making it sound like the floozies typify the entire population. So easy! How about visiting the churches, or food banks or hospitals, or charity clubs, etc.? You would find that the majority of people here are decent and generous, volunteering their time and generously donating to needy causes. We never were and still aren't "sexual parasites"!
By the way, this same story came out two years ago on CNN and the statistics were proven untrue. CNN did a retraction, but gave that a lot less prominence than they gave the original story! I read the book by Blechman, at least I read read part of it. I couldn't stand to read it all. Like you, he chose to interview only the "right" people. He did his interviews at nightclubs, gay hangouts, etc. He ignored the churches, civic organizations and local charities. He also had a real problem with people who choose to live a life of leisure in their later years, implying that we should all stay in our hometowns and do volunteer work for the rest of our lives. I'd like to know what he thinks we did all those years we were living in our hometowns and working full time. We volunteered - a lot! So, he thinks we just abandon any sense of civic duty when we move to Florida and think only about having a "good time". Disgusting!
most of the men want a one-night meaningful relationship
At their age one night may be all they got. ;) Yuck!
lol Seniors run amuck.
Mountain Lions.
; )
Viva Viagra *ping*...
PM me if you wish to be added to this long-lasting *ping* list...however, please contact your Doctor to see if you are healthy enough to read this material, if you have been reading this for more than four hours that could present a dangerous condition....
On second thought, if the ladies outnumber the men 10 to 1, what’s to fight over there are 19 left to one of those guys.
His 10 and the other guys remaining 9. ;)
With the depressed housing market, and falling prices this story will be a lure for lonely widows and widowers to come to the Villages. I think it’s a great marketing idea. a Realtors dream...
Do you think those blue rinse babes have matching collars and cuffs?
I guess I didn’t see the “silver lining” that you saw. I think most seniors are looking for an active and wholesome retirement, not a sexually explicit lifestyle.
As well there shouldn’t be.
Phone call at the Villages...
Old man: "Watcha wearing right now sexy?"
Old woman: "Depends"
Old man: "Depends on what?"
Old woman: "No, DEPENDS"
Old man: "Oh".
wow. std over 65. gag. i sure hope i live to my senior years and if I do, i hope i have their energy - it would be funny to read this article in 25 years and see how things have changed
I caught that deceptive piece of journalism too.
I have a 90 year old widowed MIL in an assisted living center. Somehow I just can't see her hooking up with some old codger in a golf cart. LOL.
♫ Viva Viagra! ♫
Benjamin Franklin
Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress.
June 25, 1745
My dear Friend,
I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entering into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.
But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:
1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.
2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.
3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.
4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.
5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.
6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.
7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.
8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!
Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.
Just when I was getting ready to post TTIWWP
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