Abstinence Programs Stretch the Facts -- Post
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Youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only sex-education courses frequently receive inaccurate or misleading information, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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DEAR ELLIE: I&#39;ve been married 10 years. I suspect my husband has a sexual addiction. He&#39;s been leading a double life -- hiding his use of porn, call girls and massage parlors from me until I figured it out.
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Advances in medical science should lead to improvements in birth control methods -- but current debates remain hung up on teenagers' sex lives. Adult women and men looking for better options shouldn't be left out in the cold. Commentary by Gina Lynn.
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Some see easy access to emergency contraception as a way to drastically reduce teen pregnancy, already on the decline since the early 1990s. Others worry that its long-term effects on young women are unknown or argue that the drug, also known as the "morning after pill," encourages teens to have sex. Ultimately, it will be up to Food and Drug Administration officials to decide: Should older teens be able to buy emergency contraception over the counter?
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Viewpoint: The outcry over Portland, Maine's decision to provide the pill to young girls shows that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids
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NEW YORK  - The public health burden  related to unsafe sexual activity is three times higher in the  U.S. than in other developed nations, according to researchers  at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Moves to bring sex out of the closet in  largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate  between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates,  and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.
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NEW YORK  - The dramatic declines in teenage pregnancy rates noted in the United States between 1995 and 2002 were largely due to improved contraceptive use, not to abstinence, a new study shows.
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If we're going to start worrying about porn, doesn't it make sense to actually study its role in society rather than make stuff up? Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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NEW YORK  - Many young men could use a bit more instruction on proper condom use, according to lead author of a new study that found nearly one in three experienced recent condom breakage.
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Expectations that circumcision among men would reduce the risk of their female sexual partners becoming infected with AIDS were refuted by a new study.
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NEW YORK  - A program aimed at cutting  rates of sexually transmitted disease among minority women at  heightened risk seems to have lasting benefits, according to a  new study.
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WASHINGTON - Health experts urged the Bush administration on Wednesday to move beyond the ABCs of global AIDS prevention - abstinence, being faithful and using condoms - and help women who are infected through factors beyond their control.
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The first test of a daily pill to prevent HIV infection gave a tantalizing hint of success, but a real answer must await a larger study due out next year.
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Younger teens are staying away from sex more and when they do have sex, they are more likely to use contraception, U.S. government researchers reported Friday.
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NEW YORK  - Mistaken assumptions about black sexuality are finding their way into scientific research on the spread of HIV, and this could do more to fuel risky behavior than prevent it, authors of a new commentary warn.
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WASHINGTON -- At some time down the road, there may be a new type of nonhormonal contraceptive available to men -- and it&#39;s one that would be injected.