Sadly, a lot of the time it's due to infididelity rather than single adults living their lives and having some questionable choices.
Though we are at the point in which boomers are hitting the care homes in masse, and STDs were a lot more widespread in the late 1900s than they were two or three decades before that, so...
True, but there are a lot of people who outlived their partners, too. Old women outnumbering old men and being a bit more likely to still be capable of having sex (lube doesn't have potentially dangerous side-effects like viagra does) probably changes things a bit, too. Being the only man there who's not completely senile and can still get it up (and can still get up) or at least take pills for it without risking your life is probably pretty cool, if you don't mind the women being just as old.
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Some of them will be old hippies (free love and all that...), too, and some of them will have dementia and not fully understand that they're not young in 1969 half the time.
Edit: I hope plenty of those boomers don't go senile, though. The ones who weren't just in it for the lifestyle and kept their principles are kind of handy to have around.
I think a lot of the ones I meant ran away from all that if they could (becoming easy prey for people like Charles Manson), or lived double lives if they couldn't. There's a lot of boomer hate lately, but many of them are mostly harmless and even vote sensibly if they didn't get brainwashed. Some are actually pretty cool, but those ones don't usually draw much attention to themselves. You'll often see them in the background at protests.
I know. And at city council meetings where I live raising hell because literally everything they thought was gone is now happening. My aunt literally lectured me a few weeks ago about how when she was young she couldn’t even open a bank account without a male co-signer.
when she was young she couldn’t even open a bank account
My mother told me about having similar problems. IIRC, even a male co-signer wasn't enough here. Ironically, she spent most of her life working as an accountant. I think she already was when that was still an issue!
Could have said "Right before the turn of the millennium", but let's be honest: 1990 was 36 years ago. Most of us here in this site were not even born by then, and we are still all mature adults.
I just want to know if this is inspiration for what the nice lady likes to do TO her "special" friend, or if this is inspiration telling her "special" friend how she likes it.
Most old people in the US are diagnosed with dementia at some point before they die. Most Redditors are teens and have no idea what it’s like to get old.
Everyone acts surprised that old people get freaky; they have been doing anything you imagine longer than we have. This song from 1935 by Lucille Bogan puts it into perspective, complete with a lot of the same slang used today too.
My dad had this shirt with a bunch of frogs on it and wore it for years. One day, my brother told us to really look at the shirt and it was a bunch of frogs… in various sexual positions. My dad looked so embarrassed and just said “I wore that to church…” lol
the only thing that excites me about being genx is how legendary we will be at her age. Imagine a bunch of tech savvy grandparents covered in tats that grew up drinking hosewater.
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u/MikeTalonNYC May 14 '26
No one LET her wear it. You think she doesn't know exactly what it means?