A bizarre hairless rodent living underground in Africa may offer clues about the links between stress and human infertility, scientists said on Monday.

Stressed-out mole-rats become infertile after constant bullying…

A factor in immune cells regulates human semen and seems to determine whether a man will be fertile, according to a new study.

Yousef Al-Abed, PhD, and his colleagues at The Feinstein Institute…

Regarding figures of the Spanish Association for Sexual Health (Asociación Española para la Salud Sexual), a loss of sexual drive is one of…

Ecological and observational studies suggest that male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV acquisition in men. Our aim was to investigate the effect of male circumcision on…

The most common medical procedure in the US is infant male circumcision. The long-term-health impact of neo-natal circumcision has received little study while the consequences of circumcision…

Sexual difficulties in women appear to be widespread in society; the relationship between female sexual function and obesity is unclear. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between…

Recent analyses suggest that about 67–68% of men with hypertension have some degree of erectile dysfunction (ED). With about 25 million men in the US with hypertension, substantial numbers of hypertension-related ED exist…

Women are much more interested in a man’s personality and looks than the size of his penis, but men can experience real anxiety even if…

Scientists in Hong Kong and China have identified for the first time a protein in sperm from humans and from mice that could be responsible for many unexplained cases…

Early research has explored a possible connection between lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and erectile dysfunction (ED) and has also suggested that LUTS associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) may…

New laws removing sperm donors’ right to anonymity have not stopped men volunteering to provide it.

It had been feared that rules which came into force…

‘War Between the Sexes’: The coevolution of genitalia in waterfowl

New Haven, Conn. - A team of biologists at Yale University and the University of Sheffield discovered anatomical details about the female reproductive…

Armed with more than a decade’s worth of statistics, researchers are sounding a new alarm about growing rates of syphilis among gay and bisexual men.

The overall number…

There are few studies that address the subject of sexual function after reconstructive surgery for anterior urethral stricture disease. In an effort to better define sexual…

Patients taking antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia often produce little or no hormone in the sex glands, a condition known as hypogonadism, and commonly develop subsequent problems in sexual function, according to…

Of American married couples, 7% to 10% choose vasectomy as their form of birth control. This has made vasectomy the most common urologic procedure in North America with more than 555,000 being performed…

A gene mutation that causes formation of abnormally shaped sperm results in male infertility, according to a report in the advance online publication of Nature Genetics.

The mutation, which is located…

Two-thirds of children in India are physically abused while more than half have faced some form of sexual abuse, a government study backed by the U.N. Children’s Fund said on…

Boys growing up in one-parent families are twice as likely to report sexual abuse as boys from two-parent families, finds a study in the Journal of…

Nearly one in three women still experience painful sexual intercourse a year after their baby is born and more than half have at…

A new study sheds additional light on how erectile dysfunction (ED) interacts with diabetes. The study is another step in uncovering the link between the…

Adult men who grew up in one-parent households are more likely to have been abused as children, according to a study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of…

Men seeking to become a father should avoid soaking in hot baths, according to a study on male fertility.

A three-year pilot project involving 11 men found that there was some…

Many young men could use a bit more instruction on proper condom use, according to lead author of a new study that found nearly one in three experienced recent…

Research presented today at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting shows that nonsurgical embolization is ninty-eight percent effective, offers a lower recurrence rate and…