The 1960s, were a time of Flower Power, Free Love, the Age of Promiscuity and the start of The Sexual Revolution. The contraceptive pill became available for women and our ties to the kitchen sink started to dissolve. Were we to become the sexual predators instead of men?

With the Pill, came a gradual decline in condom use - bringing with it some good friends of free love – in particular, gonorrhoea and syphilis, herpes, warts, chlamydia and many more very anti-social but very keen to mingle infections, intent on enjoying their own Sexual Revolution.

The UK Government funded HIV/AIDS awareness ‘iceberg campaign’ of the early 80s had a dramatic effect on the UK gonorrhoea figures.

But, we now have a generation of young people who don’t even realize what HIV is, let alone other infections.

We also have a generation of over 50s who are now re-discovering their sexual freedom of the 60s.

We need to target this group who are now divorcing more and dating new partners.

They are enjoying sex into their twilight years without the fear of pregnancy.

They are not always as street wise as their children.

We need to reach this group and educate them, as they were the start of the sexual revolution, to whom the main infections such as gonorrhoea and syphilis, are often a dim recollection and many people think that with the arrival of powerful antibiotics, these are a thing of the past.

But they're not.

They are back with a vengeance plus all the others.

Although we cannot break down the number of STIs for this particular group due to time, here, it is rising.

Opportunities for sexual encounters are equally as great - if not greater - as for young people.

We have more time as we get older, and along with more travel, more opportunity.

With this freedom must come responsibility.

With responsibility comes the use of condoms and safer sexual practices - just as their children must learn.

They are not immune from STIs.

Furthermore, the risks of having unprotected sex with someone introduced through a dating agency or Internet chat-room are no less real than by any other means.

Indeed, there are some well recorded outbreaks of syphilis transmission traced back to chat-room encounters.

Since the mid-90s the STI figures have risen alarmingly.

From 1996 – 2001 we have a rise of 12% for Genital Herpes, 14% Genital Warts, 87% Gonorrhoea, 108% Chlamydia and a staggering 486% rise in Syphilis, in the UK today. Regionally, London tops the figures for them all.

For a virus, virtually unheard of 20 years ago, HIV has amassed approximately 50 million transmissions world-wide, the majority now sexual.

Other blood bourne and sexually transmittable viruses include Hepatitis B, at 350 million and Hepatitis C, at approx 200 million.

In 1995, the total reported curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) – excluding HIV and Hepatitis – was 330 million. Today, this stands at 538 million – ie. One person in 11.

Or, put another way, over 1.4 million infections are caught every single day, which is up 400,000 per DAY on the 1995 rate - and they’re not all caught by young people.

Sex can, is and should be enjoyable – but not at any price.

Condoms ARE our best friends and there really is no man too big to wear one, though plenty use this excuse to gain unprotected sex from an unwitting partner. It’s rubbish. A condom will go right up my arm and I can open my hand out inside it, fully.

There’s a special technique for the more ‘mushroom’ shaped penis owner to learn.

In my experience of asking ladies coming to Family Planning Clinic for emergency contraception, whether their partner was ‘well endowed’, the majority said yes, he was.

For want of a better description, I then asked if he was what they would describe to be ‘Eiffel Tower shaped or more mushroom shaped’ when erect.

Sometimes I would draw this for them, but basically, my question was, ‘is the coronal sulcus of his glans penis – or ‘helmet’ wider than the shaft and sufficiently large to make rolling a condom over it quickly, quite difficult?’

The majority described the ‘mushroom’ shaped penis, as I suspected.

In my opinion, condoms don’t break easily, they’re made to strict international standards and even the worst condom, today, is far superior to the best condom of 10-15 years ago. Their correct use is an acquired skill, too.

The WHO (World Health Organisation) no longer promotes spermicidally lubricated condoms.

Spermicide is powerful stuff and can ‘rot’ nail polish, so it’s no wonder many people say they’re allergic to condoms, when perhaps it’s a spermicide related irritation causing their problem, instead of a real latex allergy.

Changing to a non-spermicidally lubricated condom and using additional water based or condom friendly silicone lubricant – like Bodyglide - will help many people and you probably won’t even realize you’re using one.

There are literally dozens to choose from and as with The Pill, it’s really a case of trying a variety until you find the right condom for you.

“WillyWorries no more” when you can master the trick of putting these little pieces of latex on a complicated Willy!

I have long nails and they aren’t a problem with condoms, though products like baby oil certainly are.

You can see a demonstration of how to put a condom on a mushroom-shaped penis – and exactly what baby oil can do – from July, by becoming a Club Zone member at WillyWorries.com and FemGen.com.

Please tell your friends that ‘It’s true, no Willy is too big to wear a condom’ and that there’s a trick they can learn if they log in and help us to help others by becoming Club Zone members.

My challenge to you all is to not just start the Real Sexual Revolution, but in the light of such an alarming rise of infection statistics globally, to Start the Real SAFER Sexual Revolution, instead.

Help us to encourage all groups, young and those from the Age of Promiscuity with the consistent and correct condom use.

And to add a new dimension to the new sexual freedom – remember to use oral sexual protection as well.

This may not be romantic, but if we want to live comfortably to enjoy further sexual encounters, it’s the safest way, in the new millennium.

Pop in to www.WillyWorries.com or www.FemGen.com and join the Club Zone when it starts in July.

We have a panel of specialists lined up to answer members’ questions on contraception and sexual health issues if they can’t find the answer through the site search facility.

We’re also responsive to what users are interested in and are willing to add all sorts of subjects from a health protection perspective.

The existing cyber clinics are a great online community, but the new clinic will be even better.

Our higher resolution images and interactive resources will be inside the Club Zone to protect expensive bandwidth and encourage an interactive community to grow safely.

We’re setting up an affiliate programme so that other companies and/or sites can support us with this, too.

Site owners can support another organisation through our scheme, if they prefer.

Perhaps people here, who have busy websites, may prefer to support Tuppy’s work with disabled people, for example.

Whatever you support singly, ask us to divide between various groups on your behalf, or decide to keep yourself, we’ll pay commission for paid up Club Zone members traced to have come from your site or business.

We’re offering great value, at only a YEAR for Club Zone membership. 15% of all profits from the website will go to support the educational work of SEXplained… Foundation.

The Net is a great place - and a risky place - so let’s work together to make it a little safer.

Let’s do all we can, influence where we can, and really do something proactive to make this world a SAFER place on land, as well as in cyber space.