News tagged with sexual communication

Docs urged to discuss Facebook with kids, parents

The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday urged doctors to ask parents about their kids' use of social media, texting and the Internet, including Facebook.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Primate scream: Bonobos make most noise when mating with high ranking partners

(PhysOrg.com) -- Female bonobos are noisy bi-sexual love-makers that call most when mating with higher ranking partners, according to new research.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

All may not be as it seems: College students, alcohol and sex

College students are less likely to let their female friends engage in risky sexual behavior after a night of drinking alcohol. Recent findings in the journal Communication Education examine how and why college students protec ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fish study turns colour vision theory inside out

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurobiologists at the Queensland Brain Institute have found that animals are not always as brightly coloured as they seem - at least not to their counterparts.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene studies lead to kissing cousins

To look at the tobacco budworm moth and its close cousin, you wouldn't be able to tell the fuzzy-looking, fingertip-size moths apart. But put males of each species as far as six car-lengths away from females, and even in ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rise of sexual predators in energy boomtowns highlights social problems

Research into the social and environmental effects on communities that are economically dependent on oil and gas industries has revealed "social dysfunction and biological impoverishment." The research, published in Conservation Bi ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers question evidence linking overlapping sexual partners and African HIV rates

Contrary to conventional wisdom, scientific evidence proving that overlapping multiple sexual partners — concurrency — drives the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is actually quite limited, Brown University researchers ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Understanding the process of homosexual identity formation among Asian and Pacific Islander youth

Young American-raised Asian and Pacific Islanders (API), who are in the sexual minority, face psychological and social stresses in dealing with their families' values and ancestral cultures that significantly impact the development ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sniffing Out the Physical Condition of Conspecifics

To date, it has been unknown exactly how mammals are capable of sniffing out whether a conspecific is ill. The biologists Prof. Marc Spehr and Daniela Flügge are following a good lead. They have discovered ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Telemedicine can dramatically improve child sexual assault examinations in rural areas

The use of telemedicine can dramatically improve the quality of child sexual assault examinations in rural communities where rates of abuse and neglect are highest — sometimes more than double the statewide rate — a study ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0