How do you know an issue is serious and deserves greater attention? Well, when Jon Stewart makes fun of it on the Daily Show, of course. This clip is hilarious, and it also goes a long way towards recognizing seniors as sexual beings, showing that some aging adults are already getting involved in promoting healthier behaviors--and exposing that some elders definitely need some educational advice (especially when it comes to the dreaded disease cunnilinguism), before they die from herpes.

This spring, the National Sexuality Resource Center is delving into an exciting new project, rounding out our commitment to healthy sexuality throughout the lifespan by examining the sexuality needs of aging adults. A fantastic team of MPH interns from SF State's Health Education department are right now developing a pilot needs assessment looking at how elders in assisted living programs are or are not supported in terms of sexual health.

Seniors are having sex: as Stacy Lindau’s groundbreaking 2007 study(published in the New England Journal of Medicine) revealed, most people ages 57 to 85 think of sexuality as an important part of life and the frequency of sexual activity, for those who are active, declines only slightly from the 50s to the early 70s (Lindau , 2007). According to the CDC, the proportion of older HIV-positive individuals in the US has climbed...