More Sex Partners Linked to Higher Risk of Drug Addiction, Alcoholism
Getty Images/Blend Images / Getty Images/Blend Images – Close up of couple’s feet in bed And the risk is especially great for women, according to new research. Researchers explored the relationship between addictions and risky sexual behavior in a report published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. They followed virtually all of the 1037 [...]
Early Puberty in Boys: When Should Dads Start Talking with Their Sons About Sex?
delphinE LE BERRE / Flickr / Getty Images With growing evidence that boys, like girls, are maturing at ever younger ages, who’s ready with helpful advice? Moms really can’t avoid having the puberty talk with their daughters — the arrival of their first periods makes sure of that. But now that boys — like girls — [...]
Pediatricians Urged to Discuss Emergency Contraception with Teen Patients
age fotostock / Raymond Forbes / Getty Images Will discussing and prescribing emergency contraception help to lower teen pregnancy in the U.S.? Despite declines over the past few decades, the rate of unintended teen pregnancy in the U.S. remains the highest among those in the developed world. So the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending that pediatricians discuss [...]
Men, Infertility and Depression
By Penny Johnston (Penny Johnston is the presenter of Babytalk Men, Infertility and Depression, this doesn’t sound like a bright or positive subject for a podcast, but it is. Have you or your partner struggled with infertility? Ever wanted to know exactly what is it like from a bloke’s point of view? Interested in how you go [...]
An age of desire
People of all ages, including older people, have sexual desires and are sexually active. TWO senior citizens are sitting in the old people’s home, discussing their sex lives. Bill asks Bob: “Can you still do it?” Bob: “Oh, yes, I do it almost every night of the week.” “Almost every night?” “Yeah! Almost Monday, almost [...]
Push to add sex education to national curriculum
With sexual infection rates among young people rising by 20 per cent in the past three years, there’s never been a better time to talk about sex. But a national survey of 15-29 year olds shows that sexual education across Australian schools ranges from no sexual education or minimal classes focusing on the dangers of [...]
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Spreading Worldwide, WHO Warns
Officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) are urging governments and doctors to increase surveillance of potentially untreatable strains of drug-resistant gonorrhea and are calling for more vigilance on the proper treatment of the disease with antibiotics. The widely spreading “superbug” strains of the sexually transmitted infection are resistant to cephalosporin antibiotics, normally the last line of [...]
Scientists Predict Weight Gain and Sexual Activity by Peeking at the Brain
It sounds a bit like science fiction, but a group of researchers from Dartmouth College were able to observe students’ brain activity to predict their future behavior. In the study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of 58 incoming first-year college females. Before the scan, the women were weighed [...]
Circumcision: the Surgery that Can Lower Prostate Cancer Risk
A new study suggests men who are circumcised before their first sexual encounter may be less likely to develop prostate cancer later on. As the study reports, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are commonly linked to prostate cancer since these conditions causes inflammation of the prostate—which makes it vulnerable to abnormally growing cells. Circumcision, doctors theorize, [...]
Teen Sex Ed: Instead of Promoting Promiscuity, It Delays First Sex
The relationship between abstinence, contraception, sex and teens is nothing if not complicated. On Tuesday, it got even more tangled as Utah lawmakers gave a nod to what could become the nation’s most restrictive sex-education policy if it passes: no talk of contraception and no mention of homosexuality. No mention of much, in fact, besides [...]
