Category Archives: Sex Science Saturday

Jeff Booth looks at the Hush documentary, which is presented as a science based look at the negative outcomes of abortion.

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Medical professionals explain why they don’t promote HPV vaccinations to their patients. Survey shows that sex gets better over time. A study of changes in sexual identity in women. A study on maintaining desire in long term relationships.

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Jeff revisits a 2013 study on oral sex and continues his discussion from last week of the problems with evolutionary psychology.

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The problems scientists get into when getting outside of their areas of scientific expertise. The pitfalls of evolutionary psychology, and bad science journalism, come together in a story of a study that supposedly explains why women enjoy giving oral sex.

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Big AIDS related announcement from Australia.  The first significant study on testosterone’s effect on sexual desire in older men.  Surprising and disturbing findings about bisexuals.

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A new study on attractiveness and the likelihood of safe sex. The new Apps that let you get around the requirement in most States to see a doctor to get birth control.

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The astonishing but not surprising dangerous activities of the House Select Committee on Infant Lives that risk both life saving research and the lives of researchers. Another major breakthrough on HIV. The shocking reason researchers don’t bother to study women in clinical trials.

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The shocking new anti-abortion law in Utah that requires doctors to lie to their patients, put them in danger, and perform a procedure that no one knows how to do. A new study shows that women may hold an important key to immunizing against viral STDs. A new study on the quality of sex and caloric intake.

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A new study shows that abstinence pledges are worse than a failure- they put girls and young women at greater risk. A new multiple country survey on ideal penis size. A promising new treatment for prostate cancer that does not cause impotence.

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Latest data on teen birth rate. Why men get oral HPV related cancer more often than women. How genes might impact the age that we first have sex.

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