How can it affect property values in The Villages? STD's are only contagious if you are having sex with an infected person --so would only affect property values in a neighborhood of swingers, right? You probably have at least one or two neighbors right now who have an STD --at least a third of the adult population right now probably has some form of herpes.

Official/verifiable source of this info, please (notwithstanding "probably")?

So, jimbo you don't live here? Ever been here? Ever been on a lifestyle visit?
Um??

Suddenly Senior
 

I think what he means is that with all the STUFF floating around the internet, there might be people who have used their search engines to look up TV and end up with some unsavory tidbits.....and a less than desirable impression.

Not everyone takes things with a grain of salt. Many believe what they read in print. I read Leisureville and just took it as a one young father's opinion.
He, like us, enjoyed having the elderly neighbors around while we were raising children........thus he could not understand why anyone would want to live away from children, etc.

A relative just sent me a website (which I will not provide the hyperlink here.)
However, anyone wanting to go to it, just type in:

SUDDENLY SENIOR

The website is written by a Frank Kaiser.

At the bottom is a search engine.

Type in THE VILLAGES FLORIDA

I agree with Jimbo that perhaps the management can do something about the stuff that is floating around cyperspace before more people get the wrong idea. Another link said it was only about 10,500 but that's the entire population of some towns up here. I think FREEDOM OF SPEECH to question these things is a good thing........and will put peoples mind at rest. But how would you know which neighborhood had the swingers in it???? Just playing Devil's Advocate here.

I don't know why anyone cares. We're about the fastest growing community in the nation and all the gossip mongers who are spreading and believing this silliness aren't people I'd choose for neighbors anyway, given my druthers.

We're doing so fine here and the naysayers can whisper all they want and it doesn't change our wonderful lives.

Senior. I usually agree with you but not on this one. One can't control what is on the internet. You can find dirt if you are looking for dirt. My sainted Grandmother said that. But I think she was talking about housekeeping.

I think that this issue is a non issue. I think that senior citizens living anywhere have sex lives that mirror the rest of the population. I don't think we play golf quite as much as we used to either. But some of us are playing golf just as well.

I did hear privately from someone who designs websites that it is difficult to get rid of these offensive sites.......but the only way would be to bombard the internet with POSITIVE websites and informational stuff about TV which would then shoot up to the top of the list of the search engine.....putting the offensive ones down at the bottom of the list......

Sex lives are private things and not the issue here.

It was about swingers and wife swapping and the fact thereof drawing certain people to The Villages..

I really don't think the Villages needs defending at all. It speaks for itself immediately as you enter the front gates. Everything was just as you said it would be.

HOWEVER.........

Gracie, remember that "other list" we found a year or so ago????

While we were in TV, hubby experimented with his new smart phone and found a whole enclave of them in the Mount Dora / Tavares region.
We had looked over there as well, due to the marina and lake for boating.
As grandchildren , whom we love dearly, would be visiting as often as they can, we wouldn't want to be surrounded with that sort. Better safe than sorry.

Probably much ado about nothing. I didn't get the "Las Vegas" vibes while there and we're fast asleep when all this stuff is going on anyway (if it is going on). In our town, no one gets so upset if someone says something about the lowlifes or the whatever.........because people accept that there are all kinds of folks........but in TV it seems to hit a nerve. All I'm saying is why can't people speak freely.....asking a question isn't a crime. For those who have read the bad stuff.......and wonder.........I can totally understand why they wonder.

What is them??

What other list?

I am not getting upset because people are saying that we have sexually transmitted diseases in The Villages. I am getting upset because people are believing we have more than what is considered average.

No one likes to hear that some folks are saying that their beloved hometown is a cesspool.

I live here full time. I am a frog. Ribbit. I love being a frog. Don't go pickin' on my lilypad or my pond. So there. Talk all you want, but please don't repeat unsubstantiated rumors about This Fine Place Here! (NOT YOU, senior, anyone)

And if everyone is acting like bunnies, let 'em.

If people don't have enough common sense to come to the conclusion that this lovely place is where they would love to live...then let them go elsewhere.

I am feeling a little grumpy today. Sorry.:icon_twisted:

My feeling is So What? I think there is a lot of drinking here. I think that heavy drinking goes along with other irresponsible conduct, with senior citizens the same as with teenagers. It doesn't affect me or my loved ones, So What??

What other list? The sex offenders list. Remember? You found it.

http://www.city-data.com/so/so-The-V...s-Florida.html

The above is from 2011; many have molested children. Sorry but people with grandkids visiting should know.

http://www.homefacts.com/offenders/F...-Villages.html

22 offenders living in TV INCLUDING CRIMINAL AND SEX OFFENDERS. Click on hyperlink above for photos.

It has fascinated me for several years: the folks I meet on a cruise are almost always totally IGNORANT of The Villages. I greatly enjoy being a self-appointed salesman for what residents know is Paradise!

I have never, ever, run across folks who say, "Oh, but did you know that it's a bed of incest/sexually transmitted diseases/rampant fornication . . .?"

I wonder why?

SWR
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If they are as concerned as you think they are, they would already have looked up this information about sex offenders. If the visiting parents are concerned as you think they are, they too would have looked up this information.
I wonder how many people that go on vacation always look up the sex offender residents in the area where they are vacationing.
Sex offenders, as your husband found out, are every where.

I haven't been on a cruise, but in the midwest and east coast, almost everyone who's heard of TV brings up that ugly rumor, laughing and condemning it.

So even though they are "totally IGNORANT of The Villages", they know all about that rumor and mock us for saying how nice it is here.

But it's okay.....leaves more room for open-minded, people who rely on fact, not fiction, to come and enjoy it.

PR program? Oh sure, that will do it! (NOT)

They could have put the question on The Villages health survey. Example: 1) Do you have an STD? That would have settled it.

Please let this sillyness stop!:police:

Amen.

Three of them since it is Easter Monday.:angel::wave:

The Villages have a population of approximately 90,000. I would assume 1000 1500 people would be a huge crowd at either of the squares, so therefore 2 to 4 percent of village residents might be at the squares on a busy night, if my assumption is correct.

Since I was the opening poster of this thread and satisfied that this is BS rumor.

Lets let the thread die off

Swingers villages
 

My kids tease all the time about it when they can't get in touch my bride an me,,,,we tell them we had swingers meeting,,,,,that guy that wrote that book got tons of mileage with his limited research.... Gosh I sure wish we Christians could make that much of an impression with the Bible!

Agree... Topic has been addressed and answered.

Thread now closed.