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Let’s face it, cultures are changing. Casual sex is becoming the norm amongst our younger generations but the question is, is this shift in attitude contributing to the rise in STDs
"In the past 10 years, the rate of STD infection in the UK has risen from 244,282 in 1998 to over 400,000. This is on top of a growing culture of casual sex and unplanned pregnancies. The situation has lead a number of health experts to question exactly why the number is on the rise. It is indeed down to the growing binge and casual culture, or is it down to a lack of education?"
The numbers of people who are diagnosed with STDs have tripled in the UK alone and with stories appearing in the tabloids, seemingly sensationalising casual sex, the problem appears to lie at our door.
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Female orgasms rely on penis size and mental focus, but not the duration of foreplay, according to a new study.
But some Australian researchers and practitioners question the methodology and the political motivations behind the study.
The research, led by Stuart Brody from University of the West of Scotland, asked 1,000 Czech women about their experiences of vaginal orgasms as well as their sexual education.
Their results appear in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
The researchers define a vaginal orgasm as an "orgasm produced simply from movements of the penis in [the] vagina without any additional stimulation".
It found that regularity of vaginal orgasms depends on a number of factors including the length of the penis and the duration of intercourse, but it concluded that the duration of foreplay was not a factor.
Does size matter?
One-third of the women (34 per cent) said that they were more likely to have an orgasm with a longer than average penis (14.5 centimetres), but nearly two-thirds said that they had no preference.
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But Dr Gemma O'Brien, a reproductive physiologist from the University of New England in Armidale, says the methodology of the findings regarding penis length needs careful consideration.
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Professor Brody and colleagues also found that women who were "taught that the vagina (or the vagina as well as the clitoris) was important for eliciting female orgasm" had significantly greater success in regularly achieving vaginal orgasms.
Even more important was the ability to mentally focus on vaginal sensations.
The researchers suggest that this ability may itself be "due in part to having been guided to do so by sexual education".
As a result, they argue that "it is incumbent upon sex education, sexual medicine, and wider social policy to be supportive of women's sexual health, which includes being supportive of vaginal orgasm".
Dr O'Brien believes this aspect of the research has the potential to help a lot of women.
"It can be applied to help women who have orgasmic difficulties," she says. "The importance of being able to focus really shows that the brain is the most important sex organ. If women can be trained to focus on their vaginal sensations, they may improve their orgasmic consistency."
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Dr Vivienne Cass, an adjunct professor at Curtin University of Technology in Perth and author of The Elusive Orgasm, worries about the motivations of research that emphasises vaginal over clitoral orgasms.
She sees this emphasis as part of the increasing "medicalisation of sexuality".
"There has been concern among my colleagues who, like me, think that there is enormous pressure to fit in with drug companies to help women get vaginal orgasms," said Dr Cass. "Women who can't achieve vaginal orgasms are treated as sick."
She says if they are treated as sick then drug companies might be able to sell them a pill.
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The study also claims that women who have experienced vaginal orgasms "have a greater satisfaction with their sex life, mental health, relationships with both partners and friends, and life in general."
But Associate Professor Rosemary Coates, also of Curtin University of Technology and president of the World Association for Sexual Health, believes that such assumptions are "reverting back to Freudian assumptions about female sexual responses," saying that "some form of clitoral stimulation is almost always required to trigger orgasm".
e study authors dismiss this view as "clitorocentric" and blame it for the "destruction of human pleasure".
Associate Professor Coates says that such a claim is "nonsense".
"The main pleasurable nerve endings are located in the clitoris and to achieve the full pleasure of orgasm, these nerve endings must be stimulated," she says. "I think these authors have clitoral envy."Female orgasms rely on penis size and mental focus, but not the duration of foreplay,... more
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Birth rates among U.S. teens increased in 2006 and 2007, following large declines from 1991 to 2005, according to a new U.S. government study.
It found that previously improving trends in teens' and young adults' sexual and reproductive health have flattened or may be worsening in some cases.Birth rates among U.S. teens increased in 2006 and 2007, following large declines from... more
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Althealthcare.com and The Daily Supplement Team hunt down the real facts about herbal supplements, natural remedies and alternative medicines from around the world. In this episode we uncover the truth about this controversial new natural male enhancement pill appropriately named Stiff Nights.Althealthcare.com and The Daily Supplement Team hunt down the real facts about herbal... more
If you're a man and experiencing a little underperformance in the bedroom, don't turn off the lights. In fact get some flourescent lights installed to help you get a bit more "switched on".
Dr Letizia Bossini has fund that bursts from a 10,000-lux flourescent light can cure sexual problems, including impotence, in three out of five men.
A group of men were er.. exposed to bright lights for half an hour every morning for two weeks. After the light therapy, ther majority were cured, compared to none in a second group exposed to a dim light.
So if you local hardware store sees a rush on lightbulbs over a weekend, you might know why.If you're a man and experiencing a little underperformance in the bedroom, don't turn... more
The government has announced plans to make sex education compulsory for 5 - 11 year olds in Britain's schools in a move that has caused divisions between faith groups and safer sex campaigners.
Faith based schools will still be free to add their own values in the educational mix in a move that could see them preaching against sex outside marriage, the use of condoms and homosexuality. Primary schools will be able to teach children that these things are wrong if they wish but secondary schools will have to focus on sex education in the context of teenagers relationships.
The moves will also see children taught about personal finance, safety, drugs and alcohol alongside sex in primary schools.
Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe and the level of sexually transmitted infections has reached record levels. Condoms, which faith based schools will be free to preach against are the most effective preventative measure for preventing unplanned pregnancies and preventing a plethora of sexual infections including HIV. The only more effective method is total abstinence.
So in a world were the core sexual health message for all absolutely has to be encouraging the use of condoms in a situation in which you don't want to expose yourself to unwanted pregnancy or risk. Why on earth are minority religious groups dictating sex education policy and being free to remove this message?The government has announced plans to make sex education compulsory for 5 - 11 year... more
NEW YORK - Advocates of the female condom are promoting a less costly, more user-friendly version that they hope will vastly expand its role in the global fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
An early version of the female condom was introduced in 1993, and it remains the only available woman-initiated form of protection against both STDs and unintended pregnancy. Yet despite global promotion by the United Nations and other organizations, its usage is still minuscule, even as women bear an ever-growing share of the AIDS epidemic.
Advocates hope the dynamics will change following last month's approval by the Food and Drug Administration of the FC2, a new version of the female condom produced by the Chicago-based Female Health Co. About 35 million female condoms were distributed worldwide last year, but that compares to more than 10 billion male condoms, which are far cheaper and, at least initially, easier to use. However, in some nations with high HIV rates, many men refuse to wear condoms, putting women at risk.
Though it looks similar to its predecessor — a soft, transparent sheath with flexible inner and outer rings — the FC2 is made from synthetic rubber rather than polyurethane, making it cheaper to produce.NEW YORK - Advocates of the female condom are promoting a less costly, more... more
Abortion clinics and pregnancy advisory services could be advertised on TV and radio for the first time, if a major shake-up of the rules goes ahead, in a bid to halt high rates of teen pregnancies.
The historic ban on condoms being advertised on TV before the 9pm watershed could also be scrapped.
One of Britain's biggest independent pregnancy advisory service, whose clinicians also perform abortions, said it would immediately consider running adverts.
Julie Douglas, head of marketing at Marie Stopes International, said: "I don't know if we could afford to do it in prime-time TV, but it would be a very interesting thing to do."Abortion clinics and pregnancy advisory services could be advertised on TV and radio... more
Girls as young as 11 will be able to order the morning-after pill via text from their school nurse in a pilot scheme aimed at cutting the teen pregnancy rate.
The tablets will be available at weekends and during holidays, with no limits on how often a girl can have them, and complete confidentiality means parents won't know. The only way mum and dad will find out is if school authorities suspect the girl has suffered sexual abuse.
Hilary Pannack of teenage pregnancy charity Straight Talking said: "It's an excellent idea."
Others aren't so happy. Father John Saward of Banbury, Oxon, added: "Children need to be taught sex education in a safe environment. This will encourage them to have sex recklessly."
Personally, I think the teen pregnancy rates rising show it's obvious young girls are having sex so the best thing to do is support them and make the help they need as easy as possible to obtain, not ignore it or vilify them. At the same time, girls having sex at 11-years-old does seem depressingly young. What happened to kids playing with toys and sneakily trying smoking?Girls as young as 11 will be able to order the morning-after pill via text from their... more
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"U.S. syphilis rates rose for a seventh year in 2007, driven by gay and bisexual men, while chlamydia reached record numbers and gonorrhea remained at alarming levels -- especially among blacks, health officials said on Tuesday.
Blacks make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, but account for about 70 percent of gonorrhea cases and almost half of chlamydia and syphilis cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Black women ages 15 to 19 have the highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea, and gonorrhea rates for blacks overall were 19 times higher than for whites, the CDC said.
Dr. John Douglas, who heads the CDC's division of sexually transmitted disease, or STD, prevention, said overall syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea rates are unacceptably high. Cases of these three STDs are reported by U.S. states to the CDC.
When all STDs are considered, including human papillomavirus (HPV or genital wart virus) and herpes simplex viruses, almost 19 million new infections occur each year, with nearly half among those ages 15 to 24, the CDC said."
More at link. Why are young people and minority groups at greater risk for these diseases?"U.S. syphilis rates rose for a seventh year in 2007, driven by gay and bisexual men,... more
A French scientist who shared this year's Nobel prize for medicine said on Saturday he believed the transmission of AIDS could be eliminated within years.
Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, told a news conference together with this year's other winners for medicine that halting the transmission of AIDS would make it a disease much like others.
"Our job, of course, is to find complementary treatment to eradicate the infection. I think it's not impossible to do it within a few years," Montagnier said.
"So I hope to see in my lifetime the eradication of, not the AIDS epidemic, but at least the infection," the 76-year-old said. "This could be achieved."
Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, of the Institut Pasteur, shared half of the 2008 prize for discovering the virus that has killed 25 million people since the early 1980s.
There is no cure for AIDS, which infects an estimated 33 million globally, but cocktails of drugs can control the virus and keep patients healthy.
There is no vaccine either, although researchers are trying to find vaccines that either prevent infection or would control the virus so that patients are less likely to transmit it -- a so-called therapeutic vaccine.
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"Sex Positive," a documentary about an S&M hustler turned AIDS activism pioneer, has been picked up by Here Films.
After premiering in the spring at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, Daryl Wein's film went on to win the award for best documentary feature at LA Outfest this year. Here Films nabbed domestic rights and will distribute the film theatrically through sister outfit Regent Releasing in March."Sex Positive," a documentary about an S&M hustler turned AIDS activism pioneer, has... more
Some worrying news from AFP and CDT today, which reports that of the 90,000 (known) sex workers in Beijing, only 53% use condoms, despite numerous warnings about the spread of HIV/AIDS. This is particularly worrying given the fact that the capital has had more exposure to such publicity campaigns than other parts of the country. Makes you wonder what the percentage would be in more remote towns and cities.
For the first time in Beijing, it has been found, sexual transmission of HIV has also replaced intravenous drug use as the most common transmission route for the virus, though as there is no testing programme, the infection rate amongst Beijing prostitutes is as yet unknown.Some worrying news from AFP and CDT today, which reports that of the 90,000 (known)... more
