Site Touts Safe Sex for Seniors

SaferSex4Seniors.org aims to give older Americans increased access to sexual information they may be too embarrassed to ask about. The website’s April debut coincided with National STD Awareness Month.

The site’s content focuses on heightening elders’ awareness about STDs, and it features a 31-second video encouraging safe sex. Melanie Davis, a certified sexuality educator and webmaster, said the concept came about through work with DDB NYC, the ad agency that created the video. It depicts fully clothed, older adult couples replicating sexual positions from the Kama Sutra, to the tune of original dance music, while a safe-sex message is displayed.

The interactive website offers viewers answers to frequently answered questions (FAQs) and allows them to submit questions for online response from experts, said Davis. Designed by Frank Stallone of Hoverboard Media, the website offers content authored by sexuality educators, trainers, and therapists, such as gynecologist Dr. Judith Hersh and sex therapist Melissa Donahue, who partner with Davis at the New Jersey Center for Sexual Wellness.

Topics covered include condoms and STDs, broaching sex conversations with one’s doctor, relationships, desire and pleasure, intimacy and cancer, gender identity and sexual orientation, and sexual rights in long-term-care settings.

Davis contends some facilities “will not allow partners to be together, be intimate, and have any privacy,” and said the FAQs include some “you should ask before putting a loved one or yourself into a situation.”


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