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Senior Singles Hooking Up Online

by Tim Stevens on August 7, 2007 at 10:31 AM

Senior Singles Hooking Up Online
Wired's online 'Sex Drive' column often covers the seedier side of the Internet and its denizens, but this latest entry deals with a subject a little closer to home: your grandparents and their unquenchable sex drives. Yes, it seems Grandma and Grandpa are online, too. But while you're reading up on the latest tech news, they're reading about the latest Viagra news and using social sites to hook up with other ready and willing partners of a certain age.

Disturbing perhaps, but not just because of the inevitable shattering of your perceptions of the golden generation. The real problem, according to Wired, is that generation's lack of knowledge about sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs). The article says that STDs are becoming far more prevalent in the senior community, including the surprising statistic that 30 percent of all HIV-infected people living in New York are over the age of 50.

The takeaway from all of this, of course, is that the next time you're fixing your Gramma's computer, you're better off not looking through the browser history ... you might be shocked at what you find.

From Wired

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