Anyone having "relations" outside of a monogamous relationship needs to use condoms period. It's not that difficult. I think that older populations are more vulnerable because they think that it won't/can't happen to them... Nothing grosser than an elderly pt with a new diagnosis of an STI...
There is no "stereotypical" STI patient... I have seen patients from ALL KINDS of walks of life out here burning in these streets... I wonder what people are thinking...
If any thing OLDER people are less educated about STIs and that also plays a role in their increasing rates of infection...