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Genital warts are really a source of stress and shame and very hard to get rid of, as they can grow back after treatment. And a new report published in the journal of "Sexually Transmitted Diseases" shows that 5.6% of the Americans get this infection, caused mainly by the human papillomavirus (HPV), during their life... |
1 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Weird like it sounds, about 20% of indigenous cultures worldwide practice male genital cutting, varying from circumcision to the removal of a testicle. Now, we know also why: Chris Wilson, a doctoral candidate in Cornell's Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, says that this decreases the chances of fertiliza... |
8 March 2008
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Religious circumcision is universal in Muslims and Jews and for medical reasons it is also common amongst Christians in US. But while many say it is a genital mutilation, decreasing penis sensitivity and causing both physical and psychological damage, similar to what they do in west/central/northeastern Africa to wom... |
10 December 2007
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One of the Africa's most horrific traditions persists in the 21st century: "purification", "female circumcision" or, more correctly named female genital mutilation (FGM). About 2 million African girls are mutilated annually, and 135 million women live with the mutilation. The age to be done varies between 2 to 1... |
13 November 2007
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More than a quarter of the adult American population experiences either physical or sexual abuse along their lifetime. And age does not count: about 25 % of the women older than 65 have been the victims of physical, sexual or psychological violence inside their couple.There is a powerful link between an array of gast... |
2 November 2007
15:31 GMT |
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About 25 million women have got an infection with a strain of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Over 3 million have one of the four strains provoking cervical cancer and genital warts. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus and oral sex has been linked to HPV-connected oral and oropharyngeal cancers in both women and men... |
13 September 2007
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Porn movies and erotic literature have forced modern women to look for the 'peach look' for their genitalia and a vagina exploding in orgasms at the slightest touch. And many obstetrician-gynecologists have no problem in performing what they want, calling it "vaginal rejuvenation," "designer vaginoplasty," ... |
3 September 2007
14:46 GMT |
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They call it "purification" or euphemistically "female circumcision", but it is in fact one of the most horrific practices that survive in the 21th century Africa: the female genital mutilation (FGM). Thousands of Egyptian girls undergo it annually, but the case of Budour Ahmed Shaker, 11, dead while having undergone... |
3 September 2007
04:15 GMT |
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Aesthetic operations have developed from lips and breasts to genitalia. More women are unpleased by the natural design of their genitalia and appeal to cosmetic genitoplasty or vaginoplasty. Lih Mei Liao, consultant clinical psychologist, and Sarah M Creighton, consultant gynecologist, warn this type of surgery carri... |
2 June 2007
05:39 GMT |
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45 % of the young women have been found by a recent research to experience sexual dysfunction. Recently, Marrena Lindberg, 38, from Boston, comes with a sexual diet that could give women back their sexual health and pleasure. The Orgasmic Diet has four main hints, involved in enabling healthy sexual function in women... |
31 May 2007
15:41 GMT |
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The herpes is nasty, widespread and has no cure at the moment. But with all the damage they induce, researchers have found a positive side in these viruses: they can boost the body's resistance against the bubonic plague and other severe bacterial infections, at least in mice. "Research into whether a similar me... |
17 May 2007
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Large clinical trials and years of researches led Merck researchers to create a cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, found to be 100% effective against the cancer but also against vulval and vaginal warts induced by HPV (human papilloma virus) (types 6, 11, 16 and 18) and 98% protection against advanced pre-cancers in... |
14 May 2007
19:16 GMT |
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You surely won't be happy to see this on your sex partner. Genital warts often occur in clusters and can be very tiny or spread into large masses on the genital or penis area. Women can have genital warts occuring outside and inside of the vagina, on the opening (cervix) to the womb (uterus), or around the anus.... |
12 May 2007
07:03 GMT |
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They euphemistically call it "female circumcision", but this is in fact one of the most horrific practices that survive in the XXIth century Africa: the female genital mutilation (FGM). When girls are close to the marriage age (which usually does not bypass 12 years), they will suffer this operation. In some areas, g... |
11 May 2007
19:26 GMT |
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Experts have rung the bell over the female genital condition spreading in East Africa: Vesical Vagina Fistulas (VVF). This is an abnormal connection between the urinary bladder and the vagina provoking constant leakage of urine in women. More than 90% of the cases are determined by prolonged obstructed labor, while ... |
9 May 2007
17:11 GMT |
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You would expect men and women to look at sexual photographs differently, as there is the common concept that the male and female sexuality are very different. Many researchers say that the current flood of porn and nudity in media, from magazines to TV and Internet, has something pervert and somehow misogynist. Many... |
13 April 2007
05:04 GMT |
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