April 25, 2012
By Anne Harding
TUESDAY, April 24, 2012 (Health.com) — Eureka! A retired professor of gynecology is claiming to have found anatomical proof of the existence of the “G-spot,” the quasi-mythical erogenous zone that is said to bring on vaginal orgasms in some women.
In a paper published this week in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Adam Ostrzenski, M.D., describes a sac-like structure roughly one-eighth of an inch in diameter, located on the front wall of the vagina. Ostrzenski, the director of the Institute of Gynecology in St. Petersburg, Fla., identified the cluster of tissue during a layer-by-layer dissection of the vaginal wall of an 83-year-old Polish woman who had died 24 hours earlier. Read More
April 10, 2012
TUESDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) — Male teens who were sexually abused are more likely to have unsafe sex, a new study finds.
University of British Columbia researchers analyzed data from more than 40,000 American and Canadian male high school students who were surveyed between 1986 and 2011.
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March 2, 2012
FRIDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) — Women become less likely to insist on condom use during the course of their first year of college, new research finds.
Declining condom use was most notable among women who drank excessively, who had worse grades and who came from poorer backgrounds.
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February 6, 2012
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By Amanda Gardner
MONDAY, February 6, 2012 (Health.com) — Thanks to the proliferation of online dating, would-be couples are now almost as likely to meet via email or a virtual “wink” as they are through friends and family.
In 1992, when the Internet was still in its infancy, less than 1% of Americans met their partners through personal ads or matchmaking services. By 2009, 22% of heterosexual couples and 61% of same-sex couples reported meeting online, one survey found.
Single people have more options than ever before, as websites such as Match.com and eHarmony have dramatically widened the pool of potential dating partners. But that may have a downside. According to a new review of online dating written by a team of psychologists from around the country, dating websites may warp a person’s outlook and expectations in ways that can actually lower the chances of building a successful relationship. Read More
February 1, 2012
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) — Child abuse and neglect cost the United States $124 billion a year, which is comparable to the costs of other major public health problems, a new government study shows.
Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed 1,740 fatal and 579,000 nonfatal cases of child maltreatment over the course of one year.
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December 28, 2011
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) — A new examination of the origin of syphilis supports the theory that the sexually transmitted disease was carried to Europe aboard Christopher Columbus’ ships as they sailed home from the New World.
The disease was not spread through sexual contact at the time, but adapted to survive once it got to Europe, Emory University researchers say.
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December 5, 2011
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By Anne Harding
MONDAY, December 5, 2011 (Health.com) — “Sexting”—the practice of taking sexually explicit photos and sending them to peers via cell phones or the Internet—may be less common among U.S. adolescents than previous research and media reports have suggested, according to a new nationwide study.
In contrast to a widely cited 2008 survey in which 20% of teens reported sending or posting sexual pictures of themselves, the new survey—in a younger group of Internet users, some as young as 10—found that only 10% of teens and tweens had done so. And just 1% reported sending or receiving nude or partly nude images. Read More
December 1, 2011
By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) — The data may at first seem dire: More people are living with HIV/AIDS than ever before in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But researchers say that’s actually good news because people are living with the disease through effective medical treatment, rather than dying from its relentless progress.
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November 29, 2011
TUESDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) — A new study is challenging the widely held notion that men’s minds are preoccupied with one topic: sex.
The research in college-age participants suggests that while men do think about sex more often than women, the subject crosses their mind an average of only about 19 times per day, compared to 10 times per day for women.
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October 28, 2011
FRIDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) — Lowered testosterone levels are associated with the loss of lean muscle mass and lower body strength in older men, a new study finds.
Loss of muscle mass and strength contributes to frailty and is associated with mobility problems, falls and bone fractures, the study’s authors say, and men lose more muscle mass and strength than women as they age.
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