Grammas & Grandpas being hookerific, oh yeah baby! We ain't dead yet!

I think a good preventative is not being prematurely promiscuous in the first place. Part of knowing and trusting recognizing across the board honesty in a person. It, unfortunately requires time and close observation of not only conduct toward you, but toward all others.

When a person speaks disingenuously about anything it is the first clue. Showing lack of honesty and candor in any specific can metastasize later and find you as it's new home.

I don't see sex as a means of getting to know another better. It is actually the other way around; as a means making possible eventual sharing sexual experience of one another.

That is easy to say now , but in the heat of the moment with a few drinks down. The fur will be flying. lol.

If you’re partner ever tells you they have an STD then there’s one thing very important you have to do: act surprised!

How much of this is due to asymptomatic STDs just lying dormant for years before they became seniors? They say about 1 in 5 people have herpes. How many don't even know it because they're asymptomatic? 25% of women and 20% of men have it. That's over 50 million people in the U.S. 85% of the people who have herpes don't even know.

[justherpes.com]

[verywellhealth.com]

Damned unwashed hippies!

Safe sex, until such time as we’re committed and exclusive, and both had testing done. Even then, it’s like I taught my kids: better safe than sorry! (I became a nurse at the explosion of AIDS in 1985...in training we rarely wore gloves unless doing sterile tasks, and there were no ‘universal precautions’. My first AIDS patient made quite the impression on me.)

Shows we're alive, and that's great.

Oh oh... Hmmm.... that really sucks.

Solo sex is safe sex. ;0}