Here's a bit of disquieting research news - the bacteria E. coli tend to swim upstream in flowing liquids. The revelation, which appears in a paper to be published Monday, February 5 in the journal Physical Review Letters, could explain how the bacteria manage to make their way far up the urinary tract to cause pyelonephritis, a particularly nasty kidney infection.
Yale University researchers Jane Hill, Jonathan McMurry and Hur Koser collaborated with Ozge Kalkanci of Bogazici University in Istanbul on the work, which they believe is the first observation of the natural tendency of bacteria to swim upstream.
Posted by Super Sub in: Science & Technology, Health at 7:56 AM EST
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At 88, Yoshiaki Yasuda is Japan's oldest male porn actor, according to Shukan Asahi.
Yasuda remains a member of the Japan Lifestyle Psychology Society, an academic group devoted to the study of sex, and continues to actively encourage physical intimacy despite his age.
"This feller," he tells Shukan Asahi, gesturing at his penis, "is connected directly to the brain. It's important to keep your brain active.
Posted by Super Sub in: Japan, Health at 6:04 AM EST
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A bad sex life is becoming a major occupational hazard for people who put in more than 70 hours a week at work, in what is being termed as ‘the extreme job’.
A study has revealed that millions of high flying executives are risking divorce as the long hours they work play havoc on their sex lives.
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Eating a well balanced diet not only keeps you healthy and disease-free, it also affects your performance in bed. What you eat affects your libido and can have a direct impact on your sex life.
Although eating a well balanced diet is essential for better sex, there are some foods that are known to drive your sex hormones and boost your performance in bed. Have a look at these foods...
Posted by Super Sub in: Health at 2:53 PM EST
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Paris - The days of condom-free porn on French cable television are nearing an end.
Starting next year, channels will no longer be allowed to air porn with scenes of unprotected sex because it sets a dangerous example, the official French broadcasting watchdog High Audiovisual Council, or CSA, announced Wednesday.
Posted by Super Sub in: Europe, Legal Issues, Health at 6:59 AM EST
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Casual sex can be a depressing experience, according to a recent study.
A study done for the recent publication of the Journal of Sex Research, "No Strings Attached: The Nature of Casual Sex in College Students" concluded that college-aged women who have a history of casual sex tend to feel more depressive symptoms after their sexual experiences than men do.
Posted by Super Sub in: Society & Culture, Health at 5:56 AM EST
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When self-described "recovering sex addict" Michael Leahy stopped at Bovard Auditorium Nov. 2, he drew applause with an opening video montage featuring bikini babes, sexual predators and pinup girls - a visual brothel.
When he turned at the end of his visit to a proposed "spiritual solution" for combating these widespread images, the audience grew silent.
Posted by Super Sub in: Society & Culture, North America, Religion, Health at 5:29 AM EST
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An internet blogger with an appetite for sex and sport is being sought to reveal their bedroom secrets – in the name of science.
"Sex plays a great part in most adults' lives, we are trying to determine just how important it is to their health and well being.
Log on to
www.realbuzz.com for details
Posted by Super Sub in: Europe, UK, Science & Technology, Health at 9:04 AM EST
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I'm willing to bet that if you are or have been sexually active, you have contracted a disease during sex.
I can think of several times in which I have caught a cold through sexual contact. I gave strep throat to my college boyfriend days before my symptoms set in. Twice.
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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.
The experiment, done in Africa, mainly showed that the drug Viread is safe when used for prevention. Fewer people given the drug caught the AIDS virus than those given dummy pills, but so few in either group became infected that valid comparisons cannot be made, scientists said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 (Bernama) -- A husband who causes his wife to undergo mental injury, including stress, in his bid to have sex with her can be prosecuted and sentenced to a jail term of up to five years under the amended Penal Code, the Dewan Rakyat was told Tuesday.
Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said the new provision to that effect was contained under Section 375A of the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill 2004.
Posted by Super Sub in: Society & Culture, Asia, Legal Issues, Health at 4:16 AM EDT
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many women in the United States who are injection drug users and are also infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, do not routinely use condoms with their uninfected regular partners or with casual sex partners, according to researchers in the U.S. and South Africa.
"Forty percent of the HIV-positive women in our sample were having sex with at-risk male partners, and more than half of the time, condoms were not used consistently"
Posted by Super Sub in: USA, Health at 4:09 AM EDT
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Mary is a beautiful, soft-spoken woman who loves her children, enjoys her friends and embraces the challenge of a new career. Despite these blessings, she feels a deep loneliness.
Dave remembers the lies he told to conceal his secret and how he felt he was alone with his problem. Although Mary and Dave have never met, they deal with the same problem. Dave is a sex addict and Mary is married to one.
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(Dublin) HIV/AIDS educators knew the safe-sex message was often falling on deaf ears but even they are expressing shock at the results of a newly released study on gays and the virus which causes AIDS.
The survey, conducted throughout Ireland shows that nearly half of those gay men questioned about their sexual practices were not using condoms.
Posted by Super Sub in: Europe, Gay Issues, Health at 12:15 AM EDT
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Consensual sex with the same gender is a form of diversion to male foreign nationals in Saudi Arabia, especially in the absence of partners other than their wives or girlfriends.
On weekends, a migrant worker who is sexually active can have more than five partners a night.
The lusty behavior of migrant workers predisposes them to sexually transmitted infections, Arman said.
Posted by Super Sub in: Asia, Porn & Sex Industry, Gay Issues, Health, Middle East at 12:00 AM EDT
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The gap between adolescent Filipino females and their male counterparts practicing pre-marital sex (PMS) is becoming narrow, a study conducted by the University of the Philippines-Population Institute (UPPI) showed.
A Young Adult Fertility Survey (Yafs) disclosed that males are more into pre-marital sex than females but over the years, young women are catching up with men. The survey covered 20,000 Filipino youths aged 15 to 24 years old across the country.
Posted by Super Sub in: Society & Culture, Asia, Health at 3:29 AM EDT
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Some sexual enhancement products sold on the Internet contain the same ingredients as prescription drugs such as Viagra and are not only illegal but dangerous, the US Food and Drug Administration cautioned today.
Erectile dysfunction products can cause a deadly interaction with many heart drugs, notably those containing nitrates.
"The US Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to purchase or consume Zimaxx, Libidus, Neophase, Nasutra, Vigor-25, Actra-Rx, or 4EVERON," the agency said in a statement.
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Leone Immanuel is an invisible man, part of a minority community that many in conservative Africa prefer to believe does not exist and which is reviled, shunned and persecuted when it dares seek recognition.
But the 27-year-old Kenyan is among a growing number of African homosexuals who are no longer willing to endure such discrimination and are tentatively coming out, speaking out and demanding acceptance.
Posted by Super Sub in: Gay Issues, Africa, Health at 3:12 AM EDT
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When you first get together, you can't keep your hands off each other. A steamy look at a party or an accidental-on-purpose brushing of legs under a table has you hailing a cab in no time. But once you've been together for years, sex is likely to be relegated to the back-burner.
ON the whole, quickie sex lends itself well to standing positions - either facing each other (depending on your height difference) or from behind. That way, it's quicker to readjust yourselves if you're suddenly surprised.
Posted by Super Sub in: UK, Society & Culture, Health at 4:42 AM EDT
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Dr. Eric Rimm, associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, conducted a very large study of healthy men age 40-75 who previously reported good or very good erectile function with no major chronic diseases in 1986.
What he discovered was that 17.7 percent of the men in his survey had developed Erectile Dysfunction (ED) between 1986 and 2000...
Posted by Super Sub in: USA, Health at 9:31 AM EDT
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