Howard’s experience brings home a question many women patients wish their oncologists would ask more often: How’s your sex life? The question would at least open a conversation on what cancer patients and experts say is a neglected area: the sexual fallout of chemotherapy and other cancer treatments.
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Science and Sex: Everything You Wanted to Know About ‘Doing It’
“How We Do It” may sound like a sex manual, but it isn’t: In fact, that’s about the only topic you won’t find addressed in anthropologist Robert Martin’s book-length survey of human reproduction and what we can learn from the animal world.
Experimental Male Birth Control Puts Gold in Your Testes
What would you do for a long-lasting, but reversible male birth control? It’d be something you could get done once in a while, like some forms of hormonal birth control for women, instead of having to remember every time you have sex, like you do with condoms.
Outdated Policies on Sexual Behavior in U.S. Military Adversely Affecting Women
The Pentagon’s fear of condoning sex and logistical hurdles have prevented it from adequately providing servicewomen with adequate information and a full spectrum of contraceptive alternatives.
Will This Pill Fix Your Sex Life?
Pharma’s race for a ‘pink viagra’ finally has a winner, and the promises for it are grand. Osphena, as the recently FDA-approved drug is called, is the newest answer for painful sex. The drug’s creator, pharmaceutical company Shionogi, Inc., is particularly interested in the more than 64 million U.S. women who have hit menopause, half of whom, it claims, could use the drug. In theory, that’s a lot of women who could be having a lot better sex, and soon.
Medical Myth: You Can Control the Sex of Your Baby
Timing sex around ovulation doesn’t change the odds of having a boy or girl.
Woman Who Is Allergic To Her Husband’s Sperm Opens Up About Rare Condition That Threatened To Destroy Their Sex Life
A newlywed bride, who waited until she was married to have sex with her husband, has opened up about the shock discovery that she is allergic to his sperm.
Ignorance About Sex Leads to Infertility
Gynecologists in city are recording a disturbing trend — despite all the education and exposure to mass media and even sex education in schools, young couples are increasingly showing lack of enthusiasm and ignorance about sex due to either stress or modern lifestyle, which in turn is leading to rise in infertility.
Science Led to Gay Families: Law Should Follow
Supporters argue that same-sex parents need to provide their children with a stable and supportive family home, complete with the legal protections afforded heterosexual married couples. Opponents claim that children raised by same-sex parents are wounded in some fundamental way by being denied the “normal” benefits of having both a mother and father at home.
Consensual Sex Typically Doesn’t Begin Before Teen Years, Study Finds
It’s rare for children in the United States aged 10 to 12 to be sexually active, especially on a voluntary basis, a new study finds. However, almost one in five teens has had sex before age 15, and 16,000 girls under 15 get pregnant each year.