Do Men or Women Have A Fluid Sexuality?

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Do Men or Women Have A Fluid Sexuality?

A new study revealed research showing that a woman's sexuality is more flexible than that of men. The study followed the sexuality of more than 9,000 people over 14 years and was recently presented at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting. For the study, researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and tracked 5,018 women and 4,191 men as they moved from adolescence to young adulthood. On average they were 16 years old. 

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Facts about HPV and the new Gardasil vaccine

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Facts about HPV and the new Gardasil vaccine

HPV, also known as human papillomavirus, is a sexually transmitted disease. It is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. Most sexually active men and women will get at least one type of HPV at some point in their lives. There are about 79 million Americans infected with HPV, and about 14 million people become newly infected each year. It causes almost every type of cervical cancer and five percent of all cancers.

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Understanding Asexuality

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Understanding Asexuality

The triangle symbol is widely used as the symbol for asexuality. For most people, asexuality is a mysterious thing to those who aren't asexual and it continues to not be that well understood among sex researchers, which makes sense because sexual health and science comes from many observational studies. Asexuality is by nature the absence of all sexual behavior, making it very hard to study. However a new review of scientific literature on asexuality published in the Journal of Sex Research showed that more sex researchers are paying closer attention to it. 

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