The Baby Boomers destroyed the sexual schema with their Sexual Revolution,
The Baby Boomers did not start the Sexual Revolution, though they pushed it forward with their actions during the 1970s.
The Sexual Revolution started during the 1960s with the young adults of The Silent Generation (mainly the births of the 1930s and early 1940s).
The first hormonal birth control pill arrived in the United States in 1960. Boomers hadn't reached sexual maturity in 1960s. Throughout most of the 1960s, most of the hormonal birth control users were Silent Generation members. It wasn't until around 1970 that a good portion of the earliest Boomers were users of hormonal birth control.
California was the first US state to feature no fault divorce and that started January 1, 1970. Most US states enacted no fault divorce by the end of the 1970s. The earliest 1970-1975 divorcees were not Boomers. From 1970-1975, most Boomers were either too young to be married or just barely married (people got married much younger in the 1970s) and not yet considering the possibility of a divorce. Boomers were not the primary generation getting divorced until the 1980s.
None of this excuses what Boomers did to damage the sexual marketplace in Western nations for future generations. I'll get into that in a moment. Boomers did have a lot of economic and social privilege that the subsequent generations did not have.
Baby Boomers....leaving generations of later young men incelibate and middle-aged women in a "dating crisis" - and they are continuing to sex it up, while their descendants, who should be having all the sex, are living like monks in the current sexual dystopia.
Every generation that reached sexual maturity after the Boomers has had a worse sexual marketplace than the Boomers. The trends became most obvious in the early 2000s when Millennials (aka Generation Y) reached adulthood. Technology also became a part of dating in the 2000s when the Millennials reached adulthood. Technology made hypergamy far easier for women. Generation X women might have wanted to be hypergamous like Millennial actually were but they couldn't do it. Online dating wasn't de-stigmatized enough in the 1990s so most people still had to date by meeting people through real life methods. This led to the growth of pickup and seduction communities in the 1990s, which had a lot of Gen X students. The most famous seduction student of all time was Gen X'er Neil Strauss. The bad trends that started to emerge in the 1990s, 20 something bar scene got worse once the Millennials reached adulthood in the 2000s/early 2010s.
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As for older adults having sex and getting STIs, it comes down to personal responsibility. 60+ men should be using condoms with new partners, even if they are having sex with post-menopausal women. Condoms are meant to protect against STIs. Most 65-80 year old know what condoms are at this point.
The sexual environment for people 60+ has changed in the last 20-30 years. When the GI Generation (1910s-early 1920s) births were 60+ in the 1980s-early 2000s, these were people who had been married most of their lives and monogamous for decades. There were some widows but most widows weren't interested in sex. By the time The Silent Generation and Boomers started reaching 60+ in the 1990s-2000s, many of them had been divorced or were newly divorced. Gray divorce (divorce at age 50+) has been increasing since 2000 as well. There are newly single people around ages 55-70 interested in sex.
A lot of medical professionals haven't caught up with this. Also now, you're seeing plenty of never married Millennials reaching middle age. How is a doctor going to talk to a 40 year old never married Millennial about sexual health topics? I think a lot of doctors have outdated notions about social science. Most doctors probably think 40 year olds are married people with children.
