We tend to see safe sex marketing geared towards teens and young adults – those who we assume don’t have enough life experience to understand the consequences of unprotected sex, like unplanned pregnancy and STDs. However, it turns out that our most EXPERIENCED folks may be the ones needed the education! Via The National Post:

When it comes to the saucy, from general randiness to sexual experimentalism, the young almost seem left behind. Older people are getting up to so much hanky-panky, in fact, that last week it emerged that sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Britain are rising sharply among the over-60s.

While the beautiful young are busy avoiding carbs or worrying that they’re too heterosexual, pensioners have been merrily getting themselves gonorrhoea and herpes. Rising rates of each prompted Derbyshire Community Health Services to launch, in an NHS first, a three-month push to get older lovers to use condoms and visit the clinic after unprotected casual sex. Wondrously but bewilderingly, the campaign is called Jiggle, Wiggle — I’ll leave you to decide what this reminds you of, adding only that if there was an award for the least sexy possible name for a safer sex campaign, this would win. Perhaps that’s the point.

So to all our older OBC members, may we be the first to remind you- it’s not 1950 anymore, and the person you’re meeting may be the casual sex king or queen of your city (and more power to them!). Just make sure you practice safe sex… cause chlamydia ain’t fun at ANY age.