There's not yet any research to support a causal relationship between a rise in the number of people who are online dating and increased STD rates, but it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be at least a little bit true. However, I would argue with the mechanism they're proposing. My hypothesis is that, were such a relationship to be found, that the reason would be that older people are having MORE sexual partners, not that they're becoming intimate sooner. While to an extent these are two sides of the same coin, phrasing the problem as "quicker intimacy" ignores the fact that, in these populations, waiting longer wasn't going to make either safe sex, or STD screening, much more likely. That's a problem that needs to be addressed on its own.
Source: http://std.about.com/b/2012/03/28/an-interesting-hypothesis.htm
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