Fortysomethings are swinging more than their golf clubs

I’m nearly 40 and struggling to come to terms with it.

My hair has all but disappeared and my knees ache, particularly when I get up in the morning. It’s all starting to feel a bit like a slippy slope.

But, if Dutch research is anything to go by, being in your 40s and 50s can be a decidedly frisky experience. One in nine patients attending the Dutch STD clinics involved in the study proved to be swingers with an average age of 43.

While the combined rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea were just under 5% in female prostitutes, they were over 10% among older swingers.

Apparently it’s hard to target the group with health services, unlike say gay men, because it’s a hidden - though clearly growing - culture.

And there was I thinking I’d just be playing a bit more golf…

Tags: Humour