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Clinicians Attempt to Prenatally Prevent Homosexuality

(PhysOrg.com) -- "This is the first we know in the history of medicine that clinicians are actively trying to prevent homosexuality," says Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (45) | comments 460 | with audio podcast

Towards treating female sexual dysfunction: Research reveals secrets of female sexual arousal

By using a novel prototype drug, researchers have discovered more about the mechanisms underlying female sexual arousal. These findings are published today in the British Journal of Pharmacology.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Duda, where'd my spines go?

UC researcher finds that when it comes to hooking up with the opposite sex, genital complexities do matter.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal secrets of duck sex: It's all screwed up

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Female choice benefits mothers more than offspring

The great diversity of male sexual traits, ranging from peacock's elaborate train to formidable genitalia of male seed beetles, is the result of female choice. But why do females choose among males? In a new study published ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Hidden genitalia in female water striders makes males 'sing'

In a study published in PLoS ONE June 10, Chang Seok Han and Piotr Jablonski at Seoul National University, Korea, report that by evolving a morphological shield to protect their genitalia from males' forceful copulatory attemp ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Genital stimulation opens door for cryptic female choice in tsetse flies

Manipulation of male and/or female genitalia results in a suite of changes in female reproductive behavior in tsetse flies, carriers of African sleeping sickness.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0