News tagged with sexually active

Facebook can get you fired: Research reveals the perils of social networking for school employees

School administrators are facing a growing dilemma resulting from social networking that goes beyond preventing cyber-bullying among students. They're also faced with balancing the rights of privacy and free speech of educators ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Increased responsibility could lead to decreased sexual activity among women

In Sub-Saharan Africa, women who are empowered to make household decisions tend to have sex less often. This is according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined ...

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created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Crime Victims' Institute studies adolescent sex and laws

While statutory rape laws have been enacted to protect minors from sexual abuse by adults or peers, more teenagers are engaging in sexual activity before the legal age of consent and are facing sexual assault charges.

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created May 24, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Timing, meaning of 'I love you' differs by gender

Women, being from Venus, have a reputation for being the first to spring "I love you" in romantic relationships.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

US teens, young adults 'doing it' less, study says

Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they're doing it less. Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread ...

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created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 22

Sex in pregnancy: A primer

Sex in pregnancy is generally safe, with few complications, states a new primer for physicians to counsel patients wondering about sex in pregnancy, published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). The primer is ...

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created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Love: it's all the same to the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are no differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals or between women and men in terms of the brain systems regulating romantic love, according to new UCL research published in the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New study suggests that a propensity for one-night stands, uncommitted sex could be genetic

So, he or she has cheated on you for the umpteenth time and their only excuse is: "I just can't help it." According to researchers at Binghamton University, they may be right. The propensity for infidelity could very well ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Unhappy children turn to sex and alcohol

Young children who don't like school are more likely to be involved in underage drinking and sexual activity. A study reported in BioMed Central's open access journal Substance Abuse, Treatment, Prevention and Policy, has fo ...

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created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Placebo successful in treating women with sexual dysfunction

A new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine reveals that women with low sexual arousal experienced clinically significant symptom changes after taking a placebo.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Romantic partner may play role in reducing vulvovaginal pain

An investigation published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine has found that male partners who express greater support, attention and sympathy to women's chronic vulvovaginal pain may trigger more pain, but also increase sexual ...

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created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diabetes impairs but does not halt sex among older adults

Many middle-aged and older adults with diabetes are sexually active according to a study of nearly 2,000 people aged 57 to 85 presented in the September 2010 issue of the journal Diabetes Care. Almost 70 percent of partne ...

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created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Having brothers delays sexual maturation in women

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Perth, Western Australia, investigating the costs of brothers and sisters in contemporary Australian society, have discovered that girls with older brothers tend to start menstruation later, ...

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created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

For teens, early sex and media exposure not linked

The prevalence of sex in the mainstream media has led many researchers to study its effect on impressionable adolescents. Several published, peer-reviewed studies have indicated that there is a link between exposure to sex ...

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created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Disadvantaged adolescents prone to adult crime and substance abuse problems

A new article published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry concludes that early intervention among young adolescents with delinquency problems may help prevent the development of lon ...

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created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0