sexuality

It's not viagra, which doesn't work for females, but like viagra for men, it promises to increase a woman's low sex drive nonetheless. Intrinsa is a clear patch that delivers a low dose of testosterone and is worn on the woman's abdomen. Intrinsa, manufactured by Procter and Gamble, will only be available to women who have had their ovaries removed as part of a hysterectomy due to conditions such as heavy bleeding or pelvic pain. Trials involving more than 500 women who had had hysterectomies found the patch led to a 74% increase in satisfying sex. "There are a variety reasons for low sex…
tags: Gardasil, gay men Gardasil is a newly released vaccine that protects against the four most common forms of the sexually transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. It can also cause anal and penile cancer, and men argue that receiving the vaccine would guard against these as well. As a result, many private clinics are offering the vaccine to men. One clinic in London says it has immunised dozens of men in the last six weeks. As in America, Gardasil has caused controversy since it was launched in the UK because it is designed to…
NYC is the first city in the world to sanction its own brand of condom. To introduce them to the public, more than 150,000 of these condoms were handed out free to subway riders across the five boroughs on Valentine's Day. The condoms' basic black plastic wrapper simply says "NYC condom" on the front, with each letter in a circle, similar to the letters used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to denote subway lines. (The authority gave the city permission to use the letters, which are the intellectual property of the subway system.) Distributed by Ansell Healthcare Products of…
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that women who sniffed androstadienone (pictured, left), a chemical found in male sweat, experienced elevated levels of cortisol, an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects. Androstadienone is a metabolite of testosterone that is found in male sweat as well as in saliva and semen. It smells somewhat musky. This study compared the responses of 48 heterosexual women, with an average age of 21, to baking yeast, but found that yeast did not trigger any effects. They took approximately…
Well, I'm shocked -- simply shocked, I tell you! After Pastor Ted Haggard publically denied allegations of a homosexual affair, senior church officials admitted that Pastor Ted Haggard has confessed to some of the claims made by a former male escort. Thursday morning, Mike Jones, a former male escort, was a guest on a Denver radio talk show and said Pastor Haggard paid him for sex over the past 3 years. Jones also claims Haggard used drugs with him. Tsk, tsk. Currently, the situation is being investigated by an independent panel of leaders from four outside churches. The leaders are from…
If I didn't know any better, I'd suspect that the federal government's "no sex without marriage" message was their idea of a very early April Fool's Day joke. What am I talking about? Apparently, the feds are preaching their "no sex until marriage" message to single adults who are as old as 29 years old. What about old hags (like me) who are single, and older than 29? Are we allowed to have sex or not? Or are we all supposed to be married by the ripe old age of 29? Or maybe people older than 29 are too old for the feds to consider us to be worthwhile sexual partners? Wondering minds wanna…
NYC subway map source. Honestly, I had no idea that straight men even used maps! According to a recent study, gay men and straight women have similar navigational strategies, which are different from those employed by straight men. Women rely on using landmarks to find their way around, whereas straight men rely on a compass, directions and distances. However, this study also revealed that gay men use the same strategies as straight men use. "Gay men adopt male and female strategies. Therefore their brains are a sexual mosaic," explains Qazi Rahman, a psychobiologist who led the study at…
This is a big surprise (not): human homosexuality cannot be viewed as "unnatural", according to the Oslo Natural History Museum. "We may have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is clear -- homosexuality is found throughout the animal kingdom, it is not against nature," an exhibit statement said. Homosexuality has been observed in more than 1,500 animal species, and is well documented for 500 species. However, that said, the reason that homosexuality exists remains elusive is because it appears to be a genetic dead-end. But nonetheless, there are some hypotheses; males can…