Posted On: September 7, 2009
Hypnosis has been used to help with sexual anxiety and in treatments. Now functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) show that brain activity is different under hypnosis. The study concludes that hypnosis induces a disconnection of motor commands from normal voluntary processes under the influence of brain circuits involved in executive control and self-imagery. Read more […]
Posted On: September 3, 2009
Changing sexual practices have led to a dramatic rise in throat cancer in the United States over the past two decades. Increasing rates of HPV infection, spread through oral sex, is largely driving the rapid rise in oropharyngeal cancers, which include tumors of the throat, tonsils, and base of the tongue. Safer sex doesn’t just […]
Posted On: September 2, 2009
Back in 2007, an USA Today article reported that more men were now taking their wives’ last names upon marriage. Recently the same newspaper now reports that about 70% of Americans believe that it is beneficial for a woman to take her husband’s last name when they marry, and, more surprisingly, about 50% of Americans […]
Posted On: September 1, 2009
The USA Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that one in three teens say they’ve never received information about birth control. Sex ed classes are happening on the Internet.It can teach safe sex MTV style or less raucous sites like Scarleteen.com and even YouTube.com. For more, visit here.
Posted On: August 25, 2009
Researchers at the University of Washington Medical School equipped 330 children, two months to four years old, with digital recorders that captured everything the children heard and said during the day. The recorders were worn one day per month for up to two years. The study found that TV is: • Associated with significant reductions […]
Posted On: August 22, 2009
Not operating system. Objectum sexuals. These are people who experience intense emotional connections with everyday things – bridges, stereos, the Eiffel Tower. It’s not a fetish but a sexual orientation. Meet Erika LaBrie who married the Eiffel Tower on April 8, 2007. There is Amy Wolfe who plans to marry a thrill ride at Knoebels […]
Posted On: August 21, 2009
Vulvas come in different colours, shapes and sizes. Yet there is a myth that there such a thing as a perfect vulva. And by whose standards? Who decided for you that your vulva isn’t perfect the way you were born with it? Women are going under the knife and endangering their sexual health for this […]
Posted On: August 16, 2009
On Aug 4, a Pennsylvania man walked into a gym aerobics class and opened fire, killing three women and wounding nine before turning the gun on himself. George Sodini, 48, brought four handguns into the LA Fitness gym outside Pittsburgh and used three of them, firing at least 36 times around 8 p.m. Tuesday. An […]
Posted On: August 7, 2009
More than 30 years ago, in Arkansas, a sociologist proposed to a group of nursing home operators that they set aside “privacy rooms” for their residents to do whatever it is that consenting adults do in private. This idea was rejected then, and apparently this remains the case in modern day. For more on ‘Sex […]
Posted On: July 25, 2009
Farrah Fawcett , the feathered-hair star of Charlie’s Angels, had a private funeral on 30 June at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles. Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in late 2006. Anal cancer is a relatively rare cancer that occurs in the anus. The anal canal is a small section, […]
Posted On: July 19, 2009
On 10 July, U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B One-Step, single-pill over-the-counter emergency contraceptive. Plan B works by giving the body a short, high, burst of synthetic hormones. This disrupts hormone patterns needed for pregnancy. It affects the ovaries and the development of the uterine lining, making pregnancy less likely. Depending upon where […]
Posted On: July 11, 2009
When Peggy Kleinplatz of the faculty of medicine at the University of Ottawa put out a call for “great lovers” across Canada and the United States, she and her team were deluged with old married people. Through long interviews with 30 men and women over the age of 60 who had been in relationships of […]
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