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After the death of a homosexual man in West Hollywood this weekend, a city councilman conjured and addressed potential homophobic misunderstanding. Bacterial meningitis is an equal-opportunity pestilence.
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Sex-abuse prevention educators want children to understand that "private parts" are private in that they're off limits to others. But they also want students to be comfortable talking about them, in what linguists call "standard" dialect for body parts, rather than euphemisms and colloquialisms
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By so many measures, intrauterine devices are the best form of birth control. Why are they still so rarely used?
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As donors and surrogates make things potentially more complicated to explan, picture books remain eloquent ways of helping kids understand where they came from.
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A federal judge ruled this morning that emergency contraception should be available without prescription to women of all ages, calling years of delays in making it so "intolerable."
Is It Low T?
Testosterone deficiency is exceedingly less common than marketing campaigns and "you only think you feel fine" culture would have us believe.
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CDC scares us but makes important point
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Historically, low levels of testosterone seemed to make eunuchs ideal negotiators. Their highly specialized and respected roles are now being filled by women.
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Women who used computers to design their ideal man saw a change in their preferred facial features after going on the pill.
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Amid climbing rates of sexually-transmitted disease in the elderly, embracing sexuality as a fundamental part of adult life at all ages
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