Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that has traditionally been associated with promiscuity and debauchery. However, the increasing numbers of older adults engaging in sexual activity, combined with ignorance about the risks of STIs, has led to rising diagnoses of syphilis. The text discusses the case of a woman who, despite being a semi-retired mother of seven and a grandmother of nine, contracted syphilis.
Sitting in the brightly lit waiting room, I hung my head and prayed that the floor would swallow me whole. All around me men shifted uncomfortably in their seats, many of them young enough to be my grandchildren.
‘How can this possibly be happening to me? ’ I asked myself for the hundredth time. I had no idea that my humiliation was about to get even worse. After being subjected to a raft of necessary but uncomfortable examinations and tests, I discovered that, aged 63, I have syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection traditionally associated with promiscuity and debauchery.
As a semi-retired mother of seven and a grandmother of nine, I am the very last person you’d expect to have contracted an STI, let alone one with such sordid associations. Raised as a good Catholic, I met my husband Richard as a teenager and from then on only had eyes for him. We were happily married for 36 years. But this is no longer an infection that affects only the young and reckless.
And it’s certainly not been consigned to the history books. Increasing numbers of older divorcees – nearly three-quarters of women aged 40-69 are now sexually active, for example – combined with ignorance in older generations about the risks of STIs have contributed to rising diagnoses of syphilis
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