[kendi]

Because people like to sensationalize and gossip. Sad, sad, sad.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by Bambi

The rumor reference the STDs was started by a disgruntled female OB-GYN who practiced in a woman’s clinic on 101. I was living in The Villages at the time. This doctor has virtually disappeared after complaints to the Fl Board of Medicine and the resulting disciplinary action by the board. Her license has been null and void since 2014. Her practice was “closed or abandoned” according to the public records at the state level.
I heard that she later recanted her statement but the damage was done.

The source of the STD rumor has been investigated by 100's of professional reporters and writers through the years. Who would have guessed, there's one person in all of America, who knows the exact source? Who would have suspected her name was "Bambi"?

[Ruth Garza]

The exact same crap story went around for decades about Sun City Arizona. We have family there who also battle the rumors.

[me4vt]

Because they don’t practice Safe Sex!!

[me4vt]

Crazy horny old people having Fun till they’re Done ; )

Originally Posted by roob1

Why is The Villages rumored to be ‘the STD capital of America?’

[me4vt]

See, they’re all in competition for first Place!

[Blackbird45]

The average age of people living in TV is 72. I'm older than that, assuming the STD story is true most of us are in the winter of our life span. The moral police should step aside and let us do whatever we want, there's aways penicillin.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by roob1

Why is The Villages rumored to be ‘the STD capital of America?’

There was a reporting period many years ago when the cases of gonorrhea in The Villages went up 50%: from two to three, but that is still 50%, though it is certainly not an epidemic. Meanwhile, in the rest of the three counties of which we are a small part, the numbers were MUCH higher, and also much higher per 100,000. They remain that way. But there are newspapers that publish garbage that love to keep printing these lies. Young reporters and readers find it good for a laugh. I suspect that it is the top argument children give for why their parents shouldn’t move here. There are many diseases that are much more common here, some of them orally contracted and not sexually transmissible, like heart disease, diabetes, and emphysema.

[merrymini]

Mr. Barnum was right, there is one born every minute.

[Villages Kahuna]

Nonsense!

[Joe C.]

The Villages is still the STD capital of the world. STUPID TIMID DRIVERS.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

I do. A male friend since junior high was widowed about a year ago. He 80 and has been going at it with several women between the ages of 54 and 78 for a few months now. He recently rented an apartment in NYC in which he will reside a little less than half a year so he can get more. Yes he is rich.

I am 80 and remain active.

Is the last line a boast or an advertisement?

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by me4vt

Crazy horny old people having Fun till they’re Done ; )

What color if you are not sure or colorblind? Asking for a friend

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by justjim

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but are there any facts or data to show that the national media hates TV or is this just another conspiracy theory? Thanks Jim

Well, as Winston Churchill once observed, "A lie can make it halfway around the world before truth can get its pants on".

I don't think there's any conspiracy, nor do I think that TV is any more (or less) hated than any other comparable-sized community. The truth of the matter is that, as a group, TV'ers live far healthier and more active lives than similarly-aged people in other places. Nature being what it is, there is a certain amount of hanky-panky going on among healthy people of whatever age, and alcohol is a pretty good "lubricant".

But, going back to Sir Winston's quote--sex sells. Sex generates hits, sells books and movies, etc. A story about randy Villagers may have a small grain of truth to it but I'll guarantee that it will arouse far more interest among a whole lot more people than, say, a story about Villages water volleyball or group quilting, and will be blown far much more out of proportion than the reality of it ever was.

Americans by and large hunger for the salacious. Always have. Follow the money.

[annecobb]

Originally Posted by roob1

Why is The Villages rumored to be ‘the STD capital of America?’

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I explain to those who inquire that this is most likely true. That is why there are so many wheelchairs, walkers and leg braces from all the boinking going on after 9pm