Skip Navigation

Health

Filtered by category [Sex] (Clear filter)

How Soon You Can Resume Having Sex After Having a Heart Attack? Shutterstock

How Soon You Can Resume Having Sex After Having a Heart Attack?

Many people delay having sex for too long because they do not talk to their doctors about safe timing.

Maybe Facebook Can Get Kids to Wear Condoms, Public Health Officials Figure Philadelphia

Maybe Facebook Can Get Kids to Wear Condoms, Public Health Officials Figure

Researchers are testing Facebook's targeted advertising as away to increase condom use and decrease sexually transmitted disease rates.

Study of the Day: Women Are Much Happier When Men Feel Their Pain Shutterstock

Study of the Day: Women Are Much Happier When Men Feel Their Pain

According to recent research, men and women derive satisfaction from their partner's ability to empathize in vastly different ways.

Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement AVEN

Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement

Now that he's raised awareness of his lifestyle, David Jay, founder of AVEN, is working to change mainstream beliefs about sex drives.

Designer Parts: Inside the Strange, Fascinating World of Vaginoplasty Shutterstock

Designer Parts: Inside the Strange, Fascinating World of Vaginoplasty

Why are some women spending upwards of $10,000 for complete vaginal rejuvenation? The author visits one plastic surgeon for a check-up.

Odd Blood: Serodiscordancy, or, Life With an HIV-Positive Partner Shutterstock

Odd Blood: Serodiscordancy, or, Life With an HIV-Positive Partner

The pills are $2,000. The doctor visits never end. And there's always the possibility the virus could spread. Otherwise, it's not so different.

Vital Signs: Dick Cheney's New Heart; Medical Marijuana Smokers Shutterstock

Vital Signs: Dick Cheney's New Heart; Medical Marijuana Smokers

The latest facts and figures from the all of the most influential medical journals; newspapers; and health, fitness, and wellness websites.

Today in Research: Gynecologists Aren't Talking About Sex Enough Shutterstock

Today in Research: Gynecologists Aren't Talking About Sex Enough

They're the most well positioned among doctors to address sexual concerns, but most OB-GYNs rarely ask patients about sexual satisfaction.

Study of the Day: 1 in 4 Adults With HIV Were Sexually Abused as Kids Shutterstock

Study of the Day: 1 in 4 Adults With HIV Were Sexually Abused as Kids

New research from Duke University shows that psychological trauma predicts increased vulnerability for HIV and faster health decline.

Are Straight People Born That Way? Shutterstock

Are Straight People Born That Way?

The best scientific argument we have for the innateness of straightness is that evolution would favor it. But a poll of sexologists raises some interesting questions about arousal.

« Previous

On Newsstands Now

Subscribe and SAVE 59%
10 issues JUST $2.45/COPY

The Atlantic Monthly

David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more

Newsletters

Sign up to receive our free newsletters

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)