Greatest Generation Learns About Great Safe Sex
The New York Times, February 14th, 2006
The sex educators had come to a Queens housing complex to discuss condoms and
foreplay and sexually transmitted diseases.
Those assembled were told that their demographic was showing increases in
sexual activity and an accompanying rise in promiscuity, homosexuality and H.I.V.
infection.
As the teacher, Monique Binford, delved into an unexpurgated discussion
covering issues from vaginal dryness to Viagra, one student’s cane clattered to
the floor, another student adjusted his hearing aid and a third fidgeted in her orthopedic shoes. By the time Ms. Binford
got around to describing a safe sexual act involving Saran Wrap, a woman
shouted, “Enough, already!” and the room erupted in laughter.
The sex educators had news for this class of 40 people in their 70s and 80s,
just in time for Valentine’s Day: Older folks are friskier than ever, and it’s
never too late to learn about safe sex.
Sexually speaking, said Norm Sherman, who organized the presentation, “It
ain’t over till it’s over.”
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