Safe sex after 50

`I discovered later in life that I needed to make better choices about taking care of my sexual health’.
It was not long ago when I realized that many people are sexually active far into their eighties. I understood that when I was talking with a 79-year-old relative I’m very close to. I was telling her about my activism around HIV/AIDS and sexual health. Suddenly her animated, engaged expression froze into a look of horror. “Oh, my God, can I get it?” she asked. Then she revealed that she had been having unprotected sex with her partner, and that she knew he had relations with other women too. What’s more she herself admitted she had another male friend with whom she was occasionally intimate.
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