(NAPSI)--A recent survey by the American Sexual Health Association revealed a troubling lack of information about a potentially serious--but readily curable--condition.

More seniors are having sex, and since many of them are newly single for the first time, that also means they may not know how to use a condom, or may not want to. As a result, older adults are becoming more likely to contract sexually transmitted diseases.

To help combat these incidents, some senior centers offer free condoms and informational sessions on safe sex.

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Well, Mr. Bloomberg does not have a 311 for this one. We all know the old dermatology adage — “If it’s wet, dry it. If it’s dry, wet it. And, if you don’t want it, don’t touch it!” So it goes that abstinence is the best policy for avoiding sexually transmitted diseases. But, what if you hooked up with that person in the club last night? I offer some definitions and some need-to-know facts:

Well, Mr. Bloomberg does not have a 311 for this one. We all know the old dermatology adage — “If it’s wet, dry it. If it’s dry, wet it. And, if you don’t want it, don’t touch it!” So it goes that abstinence is the best policy for avoiding sexually transmitted diseases. But, what if you hooked up with that person in the club last night? I offer some definitions and some need-to-know facts:

Well, Mr. Bloomberg does not have a 311 for this one. We all know the old dermatology adage — “If it’s wet, dry it. If it’s dry, wet it. And, if you don’t want it, don’t touch it!” So it goes that abstinence is the best policy for avoiding sexually transmitted diseases. But, what if you hooked up with that person in the club last night? I offer some definitions and some need-to-know facts:

Well, Mr. Bloomberg does not have a 311 for this one. We all know the old dermatology adage — “If it’s wet, dry it. If it’s dry, wet it. And, if you don’t want it, don’t touch it!” So it goes that abstinence is the best policy for avoiding sexually transmitted diseases. But, what if you hooked up with that person in the club last night? I offer some definitions and some need-to-know facts:

“Let’s talk about sex, baby / Let’s talk about you and me / Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be,” pop group Salt-N-Pepa sang about 20 years ago. OK, sure. But must we do it in middle school? And in such depth?

Those are the questions many parents, and some lawmakers, are asking following the release of the city’s new sex education curriculum. Like them, we agree that while sex ed is important and certainly has its place in the schools, some of what is to be taught crosses a line that only parents and guardians should be allowed to cross.

Jamaica residents who depend on the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide free testing for sexually transmitted diseases will have to go elsewhere.

The city agency operates a clinic at 90-73 Parsons Blvd. that has offered free screenings for chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes and syphilis to walk-in patrons for many years. Now, the clinic will only provide free HIV testing and will screen STD patients who present symptoms of the disease or have been infected by their partners at no cost.

Let’s not talk about sex, baby.

At least, maybe not in such detail, in so many different ways, according to some Queens legislators and parents irate with the city’s mandatory sex education curriculum, being implemented in schools citywide in January. Other residents, however, said the curriculum — which touches on topics like abortion, condom use and abstinence — is needed for students whose parents may not address sex-related issues with them.

Girls are hitting puberty earlier than in the past, and this shift could have damaging individual and public health effects, according to a study recently released in the journal Pediatrics.

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A Kew Gardens resident secured a narrow victory in the city’s condom design competition, winning with 23 percent of the vote.

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With baby boomers set to reshape old age, just as they did youth and middle age, increasing rates of sexually transmitted diseases or STDs are emerging as the downside of a senior’s sexual revolution.

Nearly a third of the city’s population with HIV/AIDS are senior citizens who are living longer —a proportion that is only expected to increase.

On a rainy Friday, a young mother emerged from the South Queens Community Health Center with a baby swaddled in a pink blanket and a toddler huddled under an Elmo umbrella. She is one of the 1,500 young adults, mostly women, who visit the Jamaica center each year for reproductive health services and infant care.

Queens residents will be able to go to six locations around the borough to pick up free condoms — compliments of the cty.