September 2011
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Study Finds Dominant Women Have Less Sex →
Empowered women in control of household decisions could be losing out on sex, says a new study out of Johns Hopkins University.
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55-yr-old Houston woman had sex with 12-yr-old boy... →
A 55-year-old woman has been jailed after allegedly having sex with 12-year-old boy while knowing she had the HIV virus.
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STDs a hot topic among Peoria County, IL community... →
For the past week, local community leaders and elected officials have been answering questions rarely discussed in public, beginning with: ”What do you know about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the Peoria community?”
Florida Health Officials Say Have That Sex Talk... →
Alana, a 63-year-old from New York, sent an article underlining pertinent facts on the rising rate of sexually transmitted diseases among seniors to her mother, a widow in her 80s living in a 50-plus senior complex in Florida.
Demographics and Disparity in STD Trends →
We know that people get sexually transmitted diseases. We can all remember the time when someone came into our health class in high school to show us scary pictures of what infected organs look like, strongly implying that engaging in sex would immediately cause our body parts to look similarly, and causing that ONE kid to pass out at the sight of some oozing orifice.
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Is your dating "type" the reason you're single? →
When it comes to the opposite sex, everyone has a type. As I look back on my dating habits and women that I’ve been drawn to over the years, I begin to see a familiar pattern or “type.” Natural hair, low maintenance but fly, thick in the right places, and dark-skinned.
California Bill Targets STD Treatments for Minors →
Gov. Jerry Brown is considering whether to sign a little-noticed bill that would allow minors to receive preventive treatment for sexually transmitted diseases without parental consent, including vaccines for girls to combat the HPV virus, which can cause cervical cancer.
STD Testing Program Embraced by South Los Angeles... →
When sexually transmitted diseases make the news in Los Angeles, it’s usually a high-profile casecontracted in the adult film industry.
But thousands are silently suffering all over Los Angeles county. Public health chief Dr. Jonathan Fielding says that Los Angeles has more chlamydia cases and the second-highest number of gonorrhea cases than any other county in the United States,...
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STD Prevention for Women Over 50 →
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise for people over 50 years old, and many women don’t have the information they need to make good decisions regarding their sexual health.
STD Home Testing Kiosks Launched in LA County →
Testing for some sexually transmitted diseases is about to get easier and more discrete. Los Angeles County health leaders are launching a series of high-tech kiosks to distribute home testing kits.
Florence Henderson Reveals Embarrassing STD,... →
‘Brady Bunch’ star Florence Henderson grew up dirt poor and the youngest of 10 children to an alcoholic tobacco farmer and an absentee mother. In “Life Is Not a Stage,” Henderson, 77, writes about her hardscrabble upbringing, her failed first marriage, affairs, (including a one night stand with a prominent politician that resulted in a humiliating case of crabs) and bouts...