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Doctors report first cure of HIV in a child
For the first time, doctors are reporting that they have cured a child of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The landmark finding will help scientists better understand the nature of HIV, doctors say, and could potentially help countless HIV-positive babies in developing countries.
6-3-2013
Pubic danger: Waxing our way to the ER
Just in case you still haven’t read your December issue of Urology, here’s the best piece of advice you’ll get today: Don’t drink and shave your pubes. You’re welcome. A new study from the University of California-San Diego reveals that “Emergency room visits due to pubic hair grooming mishaps,” including oh my God no no noooo “lacerations."
11-2-2013
With sex ed, contraception – and
Plan B – NYC teen pregnancy rate drops
The teen pregnancy rate among New York City’s public high school students dropped 27% over a decade, new city data shows. Among 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19, 73 became pregnant in 2010. That’s down from 99 of 1,000 girls who became pregnant in 2001.
8-2-2013
Public university plans event to help female students achieve orgasm
The University of Minnesota is set to hold an event this spring designed to help its female undergraduate students achieve more and greater orgasms. A promotional poster for the event says it is all about "sexuality and pleasure."
31-1-2013
Illinois
sex ed: Funding for lies, not information
The Illinois Campaign for Responsible Sex
Education, a coalition of more than 90 groups advocating
for comprehensive sex education, is calling for an end
to federal funding for abstinence-only programs.
19-9-2007
The politics of sex
Former
surgeon general Richard Carmona revealed that federal
policies concerning abstinence-only programs, stem-cell
research, emergency contraception, and abortion are
founded on dogma, not science. According to the good
doctor's testimony before the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, politics, ideology, and
theology take priority over women's health in this
administration. 30-7-2007
Sex, or he's your ex
Excuse me
for being so bold, but I wanted to let readers know this
is not a column about and for women only. Sure, many
women feel that divorce is a particularly female rite of
passage. You don't see men writing books about their
personal journey following marital breakdown, do you?
1-7-2007
HIV-positive man gets life term for sex
A
Kansas City, Mo., man who spent five years in jail for
exposing sexual partners to HIV was sentenced recently
to life in prison for knowingly exposing another woman
to the virus. Sean L. Sykes, 33, was found guilty of
having unprotected sex with a St. Joseph woman without
telling her he was HIV-positive.
1-7-2007
The meanest issue in American politics
You might have thought the first abortion
decision rendered by our new Supreme Court (Opus Dei
edition) would generate a firestorm of commentary,
especially if it might significantly limit late-term
abortion rights. 12-5-2007
In pursuit of perfect sex
Men
and women are under pressure from our culture as well as
their peers to appear to be knowledgeable and
comfortable with sex.
14-4-2007
Do women have a sexual orientation?
Presumably the masculinization of the
brain shapes some neural circuit that makes women
desirable. If so, this circuitry is wired differently in
gay men. In experiments in which subjects are shown
photographs of desirable men or women, straight men are
aroused by women, gay men by men.
14-4-2007
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