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Health benefits come with regular sexual contact with the same male partner before pregnancy commences.
A culture focused on youth may lead us to believe that older people do not enjoy sex. A new study shows why that is not true, and how the notion of ‘sexual wisdom’ may explain why.
When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
Although women like how their genitals look after labial surgery, self esteem and sexual confidence may not improve.
Understanding where teens learn about sex and how that influences them can help us find ways to encourage healthy sexual behaviors, such as using condoms and birth control.
HIV diagnosis is devastating for patients and their families. But the infection is no longer a death sentence, and should not be prosecuted as such say experts.
Vaginal discharge varies in consistency, texture, smell, taste and volume in the same woman from day to day, week to week, month to month and beyond.
Electronic baby simulators given to schoolgirls as part of a sex education program may make teenage girls more, not less, likely to become pregnant, a new Australian study has found.
Contrary to common fears, sexy media doesn’t seem to have any practical significance for when teens first have sex or start other sexual behaviors.
Many people aren’t interested in having sex or don’t feel sexual attraction to other people. Is it normal to be like this?
The active ingredient in the gel can bind to various viruses and stop them from attaching and getting into human cells.
Developers are using wearable tech to help women and girls better understand their bodies.
Pornography has implications for public health, but scholars need to think critically about the issue and look past rhetoric.
Its attitude to porn and anal sex suggests the government would benefit from some sex ed classes too.
Sex can often be a pleasurable experience. But it also has benefits some reports have compared to those of exercise. So can sex really count as a workout?
Asking patients about sexual matters is universally recognized as an important part of collecting a patient’s medical history. But many physicians don’t take sexual histories from their patients.
Australia has a vibrant, culturally rich, queer history and it should be acknowledged in our schools.
Drugs scare us and fascinate us. Societies might fight “wars” against drugs – but we also drink, smoke, ingest and inject an awful lot of them. The Ancient Greeks captured this instability with their concept…
When students land on campus, they often have unanswered questions about their reproductive health. One solution: create a massive open online class to teach them about reproductive health.
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Women's Health Psychology, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Endocrinologist and Andrologist, Cabrini Hospital & Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Honorary Professor in Sexual Health, UNSW
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Lecturer, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, City University of New York