From the Personal MD website:
"Several factors are contributing to the increase of AIDS among the elderly, specialists say.
'With the popular use of Viagra, seniors are more sexually active,' said Donna Gallagher, director of the New England AIDS Education and Training Center. 'But several studies conclude that older Americans don't use condoms. We've approached Pfizer about including information about safe sex but they haven't done anything yet. We're still hounding them.'
In South Florida, health workers have noticed a new phenomenon: elderly men crusing for prostitutes.
'It's true. They do that pretty much the first to the fifth of each month when their Social Security checks and pensions come in,' said Gloria Scott, who works for the Florida Department of Health.
'Viagra has played a big role. It's why it's more out there. And the men don't like to use condoms," she said."*snip*
"Brand said that in some retirement communities the ratio of women to men is 7 to 1.
'The women like to go out and dance and go to dinner and a movie. If you are a man that can drive at night, you can have a smorgasbord of women..."
http://www.personalmd.com/news/n0697051906.shtmlThe article is from 2001, but from talking with older women living in Florida, I know this is still very much an issue.
On edit: I am rabble-rousing here. Would this increase in AIDS in seniors have happened if Medicare didn't fund Viagra?