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In the United States, adolescent girls and young women are not being routinely screened for chlamydia, the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in the United States, experts warned…

‘War Between the Sexes’: The coevolution of genitalia in waterfowl

New Haven, Conn. - A team of biologists at Yale University and the University of Sheffield discovered anatomical details about the female reproductive…

Armed with more than a decade’s worth of statistics, researchers are sounding a new alarm about growing rates of syphilis among gay and bisexual men.

The overall number…

There are few studies that address the subject of sexual function after reconstructive surgery for anterior urethral stricture disease. In an effort to better define sexual…

Patients taking antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia often produce little or no hormone in the sex glands, a condition known as hypogonadism, and commonly develop subsequent problems in sexual function, according to…

Of American married couples, 7% to 10% choose vasectomy as their form of birth control. This has made vasectomy the most common urologic procedure in North America with more than 555,000 being performed…

A gene mutation that causes formation of abnormally shaped sperm results in male infertility, according to a report in the advance online publication of Nature Genetics.

The mutation, which is located…

Two-thirds of children in India are physically abused while more than half have faced some form of sexual abuse, a government study backed by the U.N. Children’s Fund said on…

Like many sensitive teenagers, Roger Davies felt different from his peers. He wasn’t into sport and abhorred the aggression he saw in other boys. When, at the age of 22, he…

Five vaccines should be given to teenagers to protect them against potentially deadly diseases, specialists say.

The new vaccines are needed to protect teenagers against sexually transmitted infections…

Boys growing up in one-parent families are twice as likely to report sexual abuse as boys from two-parent families, finds a study in the Journal of…

Nearly one in three women still experience painful sexual intercourse a year after their baby is born and more than half have at…

A new study sheds additional light on how erectile dysfunction (ED) interacts with diabetes. The study is another step in uncovering the link between the…

Adult men who grew up in one-parent households are more likely to have been abused as children, according to a study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of…

Men seeking to become a father should avoid soaking in hot baths, according to a study on male fertility.

A three-year pilot project involving 11 men found that there was some…

Many young men could use a bit more instruction on proper condom use, according to lead author of a new study that found nearly one in three experienced recent…

Research presented today at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting shows that nonsurgical embolization is ninty-eight percent effective, offers a lower recurrence rate and…

Increasing rates of childhood obesity and overweight in the United States may be contributing to an earlier onset of puberty in girls, say researchers at the University of…

Boys aged 13 and 14 living in rural areas, are the most likely of their age group to access pornography, and parents need to be more aware of…

Researchers have found that a method of natural family planning that uses two indicators to identify the fertile phase in a…

Men will be able to buy the impotence drug Viagra over-the-counter in Britain for the first time starting on Valentine’s Day, drugstore chain Alliance Boots said.

Three Manchester Boots pharmacies…

Some guys just don’t get it. In this case, that commonly used setup line doesn’t result in a joke. A University of Oregon study…

Research suggests that riding a bike for long periods can cause temporary erectile difficulties, explains What to Do about Erectile Dysfunction, a new report from Harvard Medical School. The risk appears highest…

An estimated 18 million American men suffer from impotence, also referred to as erectile dysfunction (ED), according to Maryland-based researchers who assessed the prevalence and risk factors for ED using…

Forget chocolates or roses this Valentine’s Day - a gift of musical condoms is bound to be more entertaining.

Hong Kong’s Ondo Creation, which makes designer condoms, hopes…