News tagged with sexual relations

AIDS kills 28,000 in China in 2011: report

AIDS killed 28,000 people in China last year, and another 48,000 new infections from the HIV virus were discovered in the country, according to an official report on Saturday.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Americans move dramatically toward acceptance of homosexuality

Although sharply divided, public attitudes toward gays and lesbians are rapidly changing to reflect greater acceptance, with younger generations leading the way, research by NORC at the University of Chicago ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 39

True love may wait -- but waiting won't make you a safer lover later on

Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: Wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they're ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Frequent sex protects marital happiness for neurotic newlyweds

People who are neurotic often have more difficulty with relationships and marriage. But if neurotic newlyweds have frequent sexual relations, their marital satisfaction is every bit as high as their less neurotic counterparts, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Multiple fathers prevalent in Amazonian cultures

In modern culture, it is not considered socially acceptable for married people to have extramarital sexual partners. However, in some Amazonian cultures, extramarital sexual affairs were common, and people believed that when ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Men are dying for sex: Mating competition explains excess male mortality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Men die at higher rates than women across the lifespan. A new study suggests that this excess mortality is the price of reproductive competition.

Biology / Evolution

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Faithful mothers have healthier babies

Faculty of 1000 reviewers examine a study from New Zealand on whether prolonged exposure to the father's semen protects new mothers against pre-eclampsia and having an undersized baby.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The narrow line between love and jealousy

A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, the "love hormone", which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Incest can lead to more disease in offspring, crow study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Crows that are the product of incest are more susceptible to diseases, according to a new Cornell study published online this month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

70 percent of drug-addicted men admit they consume drugs to increase their sexual pleasure

72.28 per cent of drug addict men admit to have consumed drugs to be able to have sexual relations and most of them (58%) choose cocaine to this purpose, the narcotic which increases the most sexual incapacitation. On the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0