Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people?
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There is a reason why retirement homes and nursing facilities are the #2 highest locations for STIs, behind college campuses.
Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people?
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There is a reason why retirement homes and nursing facilities are the #2 highest locations for STIs, behind college campuses.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve heard that statistic but it doesn’t match what I’ve seen in my own family. My grandparents weren’t physically intimate with each other even when I was a kid and they were relatively young. (I lived with them so I would have noticed if they ever wanted private time together, and they never did.) This, combined with the fact that many people in nursing homes are in no condition to actually have (consensual) sex, makes me wonder if the explanation for that statistic is not as straightforward as it seems.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have family in the medical field (ER nurse and travelling nurse). The ER nurse said that the younger people come in with sex-related traumatic injury more, but the older people come in with more STIs.
The travelling nurse frequents rehab facilities (nursing homes) for both mentally handicapped and geriatric care. He said that there is a very similar amount of STIs between both facilities, basically meaning that they are getting physical about the same amount.