Residents of The Villages comprise about 1/7th of the population in those three counties. There were 94 new cases of HIV in Lake, Marion and Sumter counties in 2012. So are there any data that tell us where we stand? Not really. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
When it comes to interpreting data, one must remember the words of Aaron Levenstein, who said “Statistics are like bikinis.
What we know is what public health officials tell us: that The Villages reputation as a hotbed of sexual promiscuity is greatly exaggerated.īut what about the “23 percent of all new HIV infections being among Floridians aged 50 and older” statistic? What about it? There are 6.9 million Floridians over the age of 50, and 6.8 million of them do not live in The Villages. We don’t know how many people are having sex, safe or unprotected. The reality: We don’t know how many new HIV cases were reported in The Villages. “We may be a retirement community, but we’re not immune to things that happen in the rest of the country.” - John Hall Pair a statistic like that with a gynecologist’s comment from 2006, and tack on a juicy story from a friend of your neighbor who saw a lounge lizard flirting at a bar, and voilà, the Swinging Villagers myth lives another day. Yet people do draw conclusions when they hear a statistic like this one: 23 percent of all new HIV infections reported in Florida were among people aged 50 and older. “It’s really hard to draw a conclusion based on that data.” “The data are collected by the county and The Villages encompasses three counties,” says Paul Butler, senior public health manager and public information officer for Lake County. There’s no way to know exactly how many cases of sexually transmitted diseases - or any disease - have occurred in The Villages. In Florida, health and disease data are compiled county by county, or by regions including several counties. “I’ve (told people), ‘I know what you’re talking about, but honestly it might be 1 percent of the people who live here.’”įinally, a statistic … albeit one off the top of one Villager’s head. “I’ve heard about the stories and I’m surprised,” Hoexter says. Laura Hoexter, a 64-year-old widow who moved to The Villages five years ago, hasn’t met one swinger among the 700-plus members of The Single Baby Boomers Club. “It’s time to set the record straight.” - Pat Jocelyn
Toss in the fact The Villages is spread across three counties and is the fastest-growing retirement community in the United States (more than 100,000 strong and growing) - well, that just makes Villagers a real good target. The unique and unusual often grab the attention of the press, and the reading public. Let’s face it, sex and sensationalism sell. That second, scintillating reputation picked up steam recently when a resident of The Villages and an almost senior were arrested for allegedly having sex in the most public of places, the gazebo in the middle of Lake Sumter Landing Market Square. Ever since, The Villages has had two reputations - a Disney World for adults … and an after-hours, no-rules playpen. That urban legend dates to 2006, when a gynecologist in The Villages told a reporter she treats more cases of herpes and human papillomavirus than she did while practicing in Miami.
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A torrent of articles and at least one book have portrayed The Villages as a breeding ground for “Seniors Gone Wild,” a place where men pop black-market Viagra, couples host sex orgies and single seniors bed-hop every night.
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