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Monik Markus/Flickr The Link Between Birth-Control Pills and Breast Cancer
A new study finds that pills with a high level of estrogen increase breast-cancer risk significantly. But that still might not mean you should change your prescription.
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Image Point Fr/Shutterstock Can the Female Condom Go Mainstream?
Despite its success in developing countries, the female condom has long suffered from a PR problem in the U.S. What would it take to salvage its image?
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K. Miri Photography / Shutterstock The Challenges of Having Sex as a Little Person
A sexologist helps people with dwarfism overcome their bodies’ obstacles to sex and intimacy.
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JD Hancock/Flickr The Overblown Stigma of Genital Herpes
For many people living with this common disease, the most debilitating symptoms are shame and isolation.
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Nir Elias/Reuters New York City's 'Gay Health Warrior'
Demetre Daskalakis is an infectious disease physician who hung up his lab coat to bring HIV screening and counseling to Manhattan’s gay nightlife.
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Wikimedia Commons Why So Many People Care So Much About Others' Sex Lives
A new study looks at the evolutionary psychology behind ideas of sexual morality.
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Jeff Chiu/AP What Would It Take to Stop AIDS by 2030?
The United Nations announced today that the global HIV/AIDS epidemic could be slowed to a trickle within the next two decades. Can it be done?
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Reuters The Senate's Pushback on Abortion Restrictions
Democrats have introduced bills to undo the Supreme Court's ruling on religious exemptions for contraception coverage, as well as state laws that single out abortion services, but the legislation isn't expected to succeed.
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Francis Cugat/Wikimedia The Myth of Wealthy Men and Beautiful Women
Similarity and companionship are the currency of attraction, for better or worse.
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TechCocktail/flickr Speed-Dating in the Time of Tinder
Even as apps and websites have taken over, some prefer an analog courtship ritual
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Thomas Leuthard/flickr Exchanging Sex for Survival
So-called "safe harbor" laws may help, but they overlook the vast number of teen runaways who use their bodies as their only form of currency.
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Franz Hanfstaengl/Wikimedia The Romantic Power of Music
Recent studies show that musical ability might be a sexually selected trait.
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Shutterstock Why We Sleep Together
A long time ago, beds were expensive—but there's more to it than that.
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Julie Beck An Anatomy of Iceland's Penis Museum
A collection that started as a joke now has a higher purpose.
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Daniel Aguilar/Reuters The Power in 'Choosing to Be Gay'
It is a big leap from thinking that homosexuality is a deep part of one's sense of self to asserting that particular sexual formations and desires are biologically predetermined.
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Mayr/flickr Trying to Rebuild Women's Bodies After Female 'Circumcision'
A small number of surgeons are performing clitoral reconstruction procedures in the United States for victims of female-genital mutilation, offering a chance at physical recovery.
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Natascha Yogachandra Teaching Positive Masculinity
Health advocates are engaging men in sexual assault prevention, challenging the negative aspects of traditional manhood.
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Nixx Photography/Shutterstock The New Sex Education Focuses on Preventing Violence
The trend in instilling the importance of healthy relationships and mutual respect, not just how to use condoms
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qthomasbower/flickr The Pro-Orgasm Movement
At a conference last weekend, practitioners of orgasmic meditation came together.
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Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters On ‘Late’-In-Life Virginity Loss
Those who don’t have sex during their teen years are in the minority, but the reasons for—and effects of—waiting differ for everyone.
