Apr 21, 2020 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Satisfaction
Will there be a COVID related Baby Boom? Despite the many jokes I have heard about an impending baby boom nine months from quarantine or “shelter-in-place” mandates, the research doesn’t seem to hold up. In fact, it seems more likely there will be a...
Nov 9, 2019 | Sex in the News, Sexual Research Review
The findings suggest that many adolescents are nuanced and dynamic in the ways in which they identify and experience their developing sexualities. Results of this study demonstrate that as many as 19% of adolescents fluctuate between and within heterosexual and sexual...
Oct 26, 2019 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Dysfunction
Another research study showing the risk to women of oral contraceptives, this one focused on progestin-only versions. Using a sample of 444 sexually active married women between 20-40 years old, researchers split the group into four treatment groups and asked to...
Sep 26, 2019 | Sex and Aging, Sex in the News
There’s a common misconception that as people age, they lose their interest in sex and capacity for sexual behaviour. But as a UK survey shows, this isn’t the case. Indeed, the survey found that 85% of men aged 60–69 report being sexually active – as do 60% of...
Sep 18, 2019 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Research Review
Sexual intercourse during pregnancy is commonly believed to trigger the onset of contractions and, therefore, labor. So starts the introduction to a recent article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. In a meta-analysis involving 3 trials and 1,483 women, researchers...
Sep 9, 2019 | Curated information, Sex in the News
In March of this year (2019), the Journal of Sexual Medicine published research on 3,944 people over 50 who self-reported sexual and sleep variables as part of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing(1)Smith, L., Grabovac, I., Veronese, N., Soysal, P., Isik, A. T.,...
