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...
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...
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...
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...
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((Smith, L., Grabovac, I., Veronese, N., Soysal, P., Isik, A. T.,...
The University of Arizona highlighted research underway by one of it’s doctoral students exploring sexting. Sociology doctoral student Morgan Johnstonbaugh presented her research at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting this month. “In this...
