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Study: Sleep-Deprived Men More Likely to Assume That Women Want Them
College men are somewhat more reasonable when they've slept.
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Sex After Dementia
Desire for physical intimacy doesn't disappear when Alzheimer's sets in. Supporting that aspect of a patient's wellbeing raises a host of ethical questions.
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Ask Alison: Break Up Promptly, and Always Unfriend
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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Study: Science Can Change the Sexual Orientations of Mice
By altering serotonin in their brains, researchers caused female mice to prefer to mount and sniff the genitals of other females.
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Pregnant at 60
Where there's a uterus, there's a way?
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Ask Alison: Age Hangups, Cheap Weddings, and Respectable Breakups
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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When to Do Surgery on a Child With 'Both' Genitalia
Understanding the case of an intersex child whose adoptive parents claim was robbed of his genitals, and of the right to decide what should happen to his body
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How to Not Hate Dating
Take it easy, be happy alone.
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Study: Antibiotics May Prevent Men From Overtrusting Attractive Women
Japanese researchers believe they've found an antidote for men's susceptibility to femme fatales.
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How a German Elementary School Taught Sex Ed [Graphic]
Children's book images, NSFW? NSFGFG (German First-Graders)?
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Pediatricians on Home Births: Ugh, Fine
The American Academy of Pediatrics said today that it respects the decision of women to give birth at home -- on the following conditions.
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Why Still So Few Use Condoms
With the "next-generation condom" initiative, Bill Gates is acknowledging that the practical reasons people don't use condoms warrant honest conversation.
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Shiny Spots on a Brutal Week
Today the Boy Scouts of America "called to end" its ban on gay members.
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Kilts for a More Fertile Tomorrow
"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." -Braveheart (1995)
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Study: Spayed and Neutered Dogs Live Longer
Bob Barker is a prophet.
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Meningitis Not 'a Gay Disease'
After the death of a homosexual man in West Hollywood this weekend, a city councilman conjured and addressed potential homophobic misunderstanding. Bacterial meningitis is an equal-opportunity pestilence.
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Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters The Case for Teaching Kids 'Vagina,' 'Penis,' and 'Vulva'
Sex-abuse prevention educators want children to understand that "private parts" are off limits to others. But they also want kids to be comfortable using what linguists call "standard" dialect for these parts, rather than euphemisms and colloquialisms.
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Why Don't We Just Put IUDs in the Water?
By so many measures, intrauterine devices are the best form of birth control. Why are they still so rarely used?
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The Duck Who Shared Her Eggs: How Children's Books Approach Modern Reproduction
As donors and surrogates make things potentially more complicated to explan, picture books remain eloquent ways of helping kids understand where they came from.
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Morning-After Pills for All
A federal judge ruled this morning that emergency contraception should be available without prescription to women of all ages, calling years of delays in making it so "intolerable."
