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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/health/sexual-health health Sexual Health News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:10:29 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/health/sexual-health http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_pa_corruption_scandal ap/20100210/us_pa_corruption_scandal AP health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:10:29 GMT AP - The intimate details of the sex life of a former state legislative aide became fodder for the jury in a public corruption trial Tuesday as he explained that his affair with an aide ended prematurely because he struggled to perform sexually. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/hl_afp/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen afp/20100205/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen AFP health Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/hl_afp/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100205/capt.photo_1265397395613-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KE3CJPP6FBv4yNgfjuv2lg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Women cook in 2007 near the "Babemba Traore" stadium in Sikasso, Mali. In Mali over 90 percent of women between 15 and 49 years of age have been circumcised, with up to 140 million women and girls in 28 countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Experts and workers on the ground said Friday that men had a key role to play in the fight against female circumcision in Africa, a day before the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/hl_afp/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100205/capt.photo_1265397395613-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KE3CJPP6FBv4yNgfjuv2lg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Women cook in 2007 near the "Babemba Traore" stadium in Sikasso, Mali. In Mali over 90 percent of women between 15 and 49 years of age have been circumcised, with up to 140 million women and girls in 28 countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/hl_nm/us_abstinence_only nm/20100202/us_abstinence_only Reuters health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:18:18 GMT Reuters - Abstinence-only sex education can work -- if it's based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes about other types of risky behavior like smoking and drinking, new research shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_safrica_zuma nm/20100202/oukoe_uk_safrica_zuma Reuters health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:25:35 GMT Reuters - South African opposition parties accused President Jacob Zuma on Monday of a cavalier attitude to safe sex that is hurting the HIV/AIDS campaign after news that a woman not one of his wives had had his 20th child. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_zuma ap/20100202/af_south_africa_zuma AP world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:34:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_zuma"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100202/capt.db8fb7ef60374c78b3f4161dc27bbaff.south_africa_zuma_joh101.jpg?x=130&y=77&q=85&sig=Sk0CjkXdbKxSrmEvkmTfeg--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="FILE - In this June 3, 2009 file photo, South African president Jacob Zuma, second right, seen with his wives Sizakele Khumalo, right, Nompumelo Ntuli, left, and Tobeka Madiba, second left, after giving the State of the Nation address, at parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. A presidential spokesman on Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010 called a newspaper story that the country's polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock 'a private, personal issue' without confirming or denying the report. Some political opponents already have criticized Zuma, who has three wives and is engaged to a fourth woman, saying his alleged actions send the wrong message in a country where one-tenth of the population is living with the virus that causes AIDS. (AP Photo/Mike Hutchings, Pool, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A South African presidential spokesman on Tuesday called a newspaper story that the country's polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock "a private, personal issue" without confirming or denying the report.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_zuma"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100202/capt.db8fb7ef60374c78b3f4161dc27bbaff.south_africa_zuma_joh101.jpg?x=130&y=77&q=85&sig=Sk0CjkXdbKxSrmEvkmTfeg--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this June 3, 2009 file photo, South African president Jacob Zuma, second right, seen with his wives Sizakele Khumalo, right, Nompumelo Ntuli, left, and Tobeka Madiba, second left, after giving the State of the Nation address, at parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. A presidential spokesman on Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010 called a newspaper story that the country's polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock 'a private, personal issue' without confirming or denying the report. Some political opponents already have criticized Zuma, who has three wives and is engaged to a fourth woman, saying his alleged actions send the wrong message in a country where one-tenth of the population is living with the virus that causes AIDS. (AP Photo/Mike Hutchings, Pool, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100202/hl_hsn/abstinenceonlyclassesreducedsexualactivitystudyfound hsn/20100202/abstinenceonlyclassesreducedsexualactivitystudyfound HealthDay health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:48:37 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Adolescents who took abstinence-only sex education classes were more likely to delay having sex, a new study shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100130/hl_hsn/fakedrugsboughtonthewebposebighealthrisks hsn/20100130/fakedrugsboughtonthewebposebighealthrisks HealthDay health Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:49:17 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_pork_and_sex ap/20100129/us_odd_pork_and_sex AP health Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:31:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_pork_and_sex"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.0f206b6a74c942cfbaa7315ed44144d3.argentina_sexy_pork_ny209.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=KE3.agHHWZjoPhsp_c5nuQ--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="In this photo taken Sept. 14, 2009, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner talks to reporters at the government house in Buenos Aires. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday Jan. 28, 2010, after Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)" border="0" /></a>AP - Argentina's president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_pork_and_sex"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.0f206b6a74c942cfbaa7315ed44144d3.argentina_sexy_pork_ny209.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=KE3.agHHWZjoPhsp_c5nuQ--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Sept. 14, 2009, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner talks to reporters at the government house in Buenos Aires. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday Jan. 28, 2010, after Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/od_nm/us_argentina_pork nm/20100128/us_argentina_pork Reuters health Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:45:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/od_nm/us_argentina_pork"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100128/capt.photo_1264706074850-1-0.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=JtKUpvnGC0qdVwefxOvt7g--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Eating pork is at least as effective as popping a Viagra pill to spice up your sex life, according to Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, seen here in 2009 and who claims to have tested the theory.(AFP/File/Miguel Rojo)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Argentina's president recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra Wednesday, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating barbecued pork.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/od_nm/us_argentina_pork"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100128/capt.photo_1264706074850-1-0.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=JtKUpvnGC0qdVwefxOvt7g--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="photo" title="Eating pork is at least as effective as popping a Viagra pill to spice up your sex life, according to Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, seen here in 2009 and who claims to have tested the theory.(AFP/File/Miguel Rojo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/od_uk_nm/oukoe_summary nm/20100128/oukoe_summary Reuters odd Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:05:54 GMT Reuters - A prank has had serious repercussions for an Indonesian boy facing criminal charges because he caused a classmate to be stung by a bee, the Jakarta Post reported Thursday. The English-language daily reported that the third-grade student -- whose age was not given but who would be about seven or eight years old -- was being tried at the Surabaya District Court in East Java. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100127/hl_nm/us_maternal_death_burkina nm/20100127/us_maternal_death_burkina Reuters health Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:02:06 GMT Reuters - Thousands of women are dying every year during pregnancy and childbirth in the African state of Burkina Faso because discrimination stops them from accessing sexual health services, Amnesty International said Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100126/sc_livescience/seniorshaverewardingsexlives livescience/20100126/seniorshaverewardingsexlives LiveScience.com health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:40:18 GMT LiveScience.com - Senior citizens often have rewarding sex lives, according to new research aimed at revealing the nuances of sexuality in the elderly. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100126/ts_alt_afp/usteenpregnancysocialabortion afp/20100126/usteenpregnancysocialabortion AFP health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:53:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100126/ts_alt_afp/usteenpregnancysocialabortion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100126/capt.photo_1264528373154-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=LzWwKZSd5hf3Nl5Ak.trTw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A young woman undergoing an exam at an OB/GYN's office in Florida. The US teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in 16 years, an report showed Tuesday, as experts speculated that the increase was due to abstinence-only sex education in schools.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The US teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in 16 years, an report showed Tuesday, as experts speculated that the increase was due to abstinence-only sex education in schools.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100126/ts_alt_afp/usteenpregnancysocialabortion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100126/capt.photo_1264528373154-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=LzWwKZSd5hf3Nl5Ak.trTw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A young woman undergoing an exam at an OB/GYN's office in Florida. The US teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in 16 years, an report showed Tuesday, as experts speculated that the increase was due to abstinence-only sex education in schools.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100119/hl_hsn/erectiledysfunctionpredictsheartdisease hsn/20100119/erectiledysfunctionpredictsheartdisease HealthDay health Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:48:18 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Erectile dysfunction is a strong warning sign that a man might be at increased risk for heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems, a long-running study indicates. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_re_af/af_mauritania_female_circumcision ap/20100118/af_mauritania_female_circumcision AP health Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:16:42 GMT AP - A group of 30 Mauritanian Muslim leaders have issued a religious edict banning female genital mutilation in the West African country. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100114/ap_on_re_us/us_secret_life_slaying ap/20100114/us_secret_life_slaying AP health Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:01:03 GMT AP - A once-prominent Boston doctor convicted of killing his wife after she discovered his secret sex life of prostitutes and Internet pornography has testified that he felt "lonely" and "isolated" when he looked around the courtroom during jury selection at his trial and saw no one there to support him. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100114/hl_hsn/takingviagrawontspurriskysexualbehavior hsn/20100114/takingviagrawontspurriskysexualbehavior HealthDay health Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:48:43 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Men worried that taking Viagra will lead to sexually risky behavior can relax: A new study suggests that drugs for erectile dysfunction don't make men more likely to engage in potentially unhealthy sex. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100111/hl_afp/healthuspharmaseximpotence afp/20100111/healthuspharmaseximpotence AFP health Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:04:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100111/hl_afp/healthuspharmaseximpotence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100111/capt.photo_1263233047067-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=SxY3u208X.2HSTdRjmSr9A--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="File photo of Viagra pills. Biotech firm Vivus unveiled a would-be player Monday in the 3.7-billion-dollar erectile dysfunction market: avanafil, effective in just 15 minutes, far faster than blockbuster rivals Viagra and Cialis.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Biotech firm Vivus unveiled a would-be player Monday in the 3.7-billion-dollar erectile dysfunction market: avanafil, effective in just 15 minutes, far faster than blockbuster rivals Viagra and Cialis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sexualhealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100111/hl_afp/healthuspharmaseximpotence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100111/capt.photo_1263233047067-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=SxY3u208X.2HSTdRjmSr9A--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="File photo of Viagra pills. Biotech firm Vivus unveiled a would-be player Monday in the 3.7-billion-dollar erectile dysfunction market: avanafil, effective in just 15 minutes, far faster than blockbuster rivals Viagra and Cialis.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)