Older, but not wiser.(FYI)(risky sexual behavior by middle-age adults)(Brief article)

Maybe it's the adolescent-type behavior that often goes along with the midlife crisis, maybe it's denial or maybe it's sheer ignorance. Whatever the cause, many middle-age adults in Great Britain engage in sexual behavior that is, to say the least, risky. (1) In an early 2009 survey of more than 2,000 men and women aged 18 and older, 19% of 45-54-year-olds said that they had had unprotected sex with someone other than a longtime partner in the last five years; 32% considered it unlikely or very unlikely that they would get an STD when having unprotected sex with a new partner, and another 20% said that the risk in this situation was "next to nothing." (Twenty-five percent of those older than 55 gave this last answer, compared ...