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I can't be the only one to make the connection. For those of us who who are devoted to the American tele-novella Mad Men, the recent psycho-shooting at Ft. Hood had an eerie plot echo. (Spoilers ahead). In Mad Men, which takes place in New York of...
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Prompted by tough economic times and more generous maternity benefits, increasing number of firms in Singapore are firing pregnant women or denying them their full entitlement.
Some women claimed they were sacked under the pretence of poor...
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Among those who shared comments with me about body fluids and spirituality since my last column, they spoke more of issues that are central to daily life than about sacred sex practices or rituals. Sharing body fluids can mean sharing disease or...
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A study published in the British Medical Journal reports that women who lie down for fifteen minutes after intrauterine insemination (IUI) have a 50 percent higher chance of becoming pregnant. The large scale study involved 391 women, 199 of whom...
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Research with Australian women indicates that most women in Victoria lack accurate information about their fertility. A study of 204 women found that 11 percent had no knowledge of their “fertility window” and another 50 percent had poor...
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The Brisbane Times reports that many people are too shy to discuss contraception and safer sex with their sexual partners. An online survey conducted by pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough and an internet dating site asked 1000 people about...
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I'm pregnant, but I'm not sure who the father is.
You're definitely not alone: DNA studies by paternity labs across the U.S. show that at least 10% of kids are not the child of the man officially recognized as their father.
Nonetheless, it's a good...
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We always thought that the ability to confuse pictures of naked babies with the latest all-anal Sasha Grey extravaganza was a uniquely American trait. Apparently not. In Zambia, Chansa Kabwela, news editor of independent newspaper The Post, is...
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At Akimbo, Khushbu Srivastav reports on a controversy that erupted recently in India when the state government of Madhya Pradesh forced 151 women partaking in a mass wedding to first undergo virginity and pregnancy tests. The state ordered the tests...
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If you go on a trip and your adorable 13-year-old gets knocked up somewhere along the way, what's the obvious explanation? Logically, it could be only one thing— stray sperm in the hotel swimming pool found its way past her swimming suit...
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My daughter walked in on my partner and me while we were having sex!
Children's sleep patterns often seem supernaturally attuned to adults having sex, don't they? The child who can sleep through the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius will come a-knocking at...
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Back in his younger, less cautious days, Al Franken co-wrote a skit for Saturday Night Live featuring a mock advertisement for "Placenta Helper," a product which would allow proud parents to "stretch your placenta into a tasty...
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Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have published a study in the journal AIDS that shows a new contraceptive device may be effective in blocking the transmission of HIV. The device is a vaginal ring, an insertable ring designed to...
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The President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, has been having a hard time of it lately. The former bishop has had three women come forth and claim that he fathered children with them while he was still a member of the clergy—and therefore supposedly...
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The Malaysian Insider reports that a 16-year-old Singaporean boy has been sentenced to one year of probation, a 9 pm curfew for the duration of the probation, and 120 hours of community service work after pleading guilty to two counts of "...