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Enjoying safe sex in midlife

by Marcy Holmes, NP, Certified Menopause Clinician

So many women coming to the clinic are telling me that they're enjoying a renewed sex life. Whether married, single, or just re-emerging on the dating scene, more women from the "free love" generation are now starting a whole new sexual revolution. This is great news! But with more Baby Boomers enjoying revitalized sex lives, the risk for women in midlife contracting a sexually transmitted disease or infection is on the rise as well.

Not long ago one of my patients told me, "When I was younger, we only worried about getting pregnant or crabs. Now that I'm divorced, I realize it's a whole new world!" And it's true: the plethora of STD's around broach all age groups and social classes in ways we just cannot ignore.

Too many menopausal and perimenopausal women aren't being screened for STD's by healthcare providers, and infection is often undetected and underreported. Just looking at HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that approximately 15% of all new HIV diagnoses are among the over 50 set for both men and women, and increasingly, the rate of people in midlife losing their lives to HIV is rising. This is a huge wake-up call for all of us.

At Women to Women, we believe that talking openly about safe sex is extremely important for women of all ages. For the most part, sexual infections don't care how old you are, and as our hormones change as we grow older, so can our susceptibility to STD's.

Click here to learn more about how you can protect yourself from STD's.

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Test your menopause IQ

There are so many myths and misunderstandings floating around out there about menopause, that I thought it would be fun to give you a chance to test your ready knowledge on the subject. Today's women have a lot of access to information and we know much more than our mothers ever did about our health, but you may be surprised to discover that you don't know the whole -- and holistic -- truth when it comes to menopause.

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Yours in good health,

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