A high body mass index (BMI), indicating overweight or obesity, may not play a significant role in women’s sexual activity, researchers report.

“Obese and overweight women are just as sexually active…

The opinions of women about sexual matters do not play a significant role in their decisions about whether girls in their care should receive a vaccine against a sexually…

Young researchers presented innovative, early-stage research at the 16th Annual Summer Research Conference, a collaborative project of the AUA Foundation and the Society for Basic Urologic Research (SBUR), on August 7-9, 2008.…

Black girls who abuse alcohol are more likely to have unprotected sex despite having participated in interventions that stressed the importance of consistent condom use.

The study…

Black girls who undergo gender and culturally tailored HIV interventions are significantly less likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease.

The study by Emory University public…

Men who eat an average of half a serving of soy food a day have lower concentrations of sperm than men who do not eat soy foods, according to…

A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls…

Women with sexual dysfunction caused by the use of antidepressants experienced a reduction in adverse sexual effects with use of sildenafil, commonly known as the…

A minimally invasive treatment for a common cause of male infertility can significantly improve a couple’s chances for pregnancy, according to a new study published in the August issue of Radiology.…

Roughly one in four heterosexual men have anal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and, in many cases, a cancer-causing type of the sexually transmitted wart virus is present, a study shows.

Parents may be able to use their lunch hour to learn how to talk with their children about sex, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that a program held at…

An increasing number of healthy 70-year-olds are having good sex and more often, and attitudes to sexuality have become more positive in this age group, according to survey results…

Obese men should consider losing weight if they want to have children, a scientist told the 24th annual conference of…

Men who take up cycling in an effort to stay fit, do their bit for the environment or avoid spiralling motoring costs, could be harming…

Predicting a child’s future is a near impossible task – today’s straight-A student may not become tomorrow’s doctor, and the school-yard bully may actually grow up to become a…

There’s new advice for older men who want to preserve their sexual function: have sex, and have it often, researchers say.

In a study that followed nearly…

Obesity is an epidemic, and lesbians are nearly twice as likely to be overweight than heterosexual women.

Sarah Fogel, Ph.D., R.N., associate professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University…

Rates of sexually transmitted infections have doubled among the over 45s in less than a decade, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Sexually…

A PhD thesis from the University of the Basque Country has concluded that there are opioid and cannabinoid receptors in human sperm and that these influence the mobility of spermatozoid.…

Young men whose parents had difficulty conceiving are likely to have relatively poor sperm quality, a new study shows - offering evidence that fertility problems are at least partly inherited in…

Michael C. Snabes, MD, PhD, vice president of clinical development of BioSante Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: BPAX), will be presenting an overview of a key study…

Women are being recruited to participate in a new multicenter study of the safety of testosterone gel for postmenopausal women with low sexual desire. The…

Taking a pledge to remain a virgin until married may help some teens and young adults delay the start of sexual activity, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

A…

Adolescents attending college six months after completing high school are significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who do not go…

Fewer U.S. high school students are having sex or using drugs and alcohol compared to the 1990s, but Latinos are not sharing in many areas of progress,…