A person who has been infected in the anal area through receiving anal intercourse may develop rectal ulcers with pain and discharge. Even if a person has not received anal intercourse but has an LGV infection in the genital area, it is possible for the infection to spread to the anal and rectal area and [...]

People often find out they are positive for hepatitis C when they are donating blood or after routine testing reveals mild abnormalities in their liver function tests. To many this information is a great surprise. Some may have engaged in high-risk activity (such as injection drug use with equipment sharing) perhaps twenty or more years [...]

Usually a person is not aware that infection with cytomegalovirus has occurred, because there are often no symptoms with initial infection. Some people develop a flu-like syndrome when first infected, with fever, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, and mild liver inflammation. This can mimic mononucleosis, which is caused by another virus in the herpes family, the [...]

Medical science has devised a promising new means of hunting for prostate cancer cells in the blood. It’s called molecular staging because the techniques it uses come from the high-tech field of molecular biology.

There are several ideas at work here. One is that PSA is only made by prostate cells. (This is not entirely true; [...]

Here’s a confounding fact: At autopsy, “incidental” prostate cancer—small clusters of cancer cells, an apparently latent form of cancer that resides in millions of men—is found in 30 percent of men of every race and culture in the world. In some men, this latent cancer never poses a danger. In others, however, it does.

There are [...]

Coercion of Pregnant Adult Women

Some courts, states, and agencies may decide that women are not taking good enough care of themselves and the fetus while they are pregnant. It may be that they are using drugs or alcohol or may not be getting proper medical care. Judges have allowed such women to be imprisoned, or [...]

There are more than 30 different kinds of sexually transmitted infections that are spread through vaginal, anal, and oral sex. Some can be spread by touching or kissing. One out of four Americans will contract a sexually transmitted infection during his or her lifetime. About 12 million new cases are diagnosed each year in the [...]

Attitudes toward sex and marriage revealed in the Old Testament indicate a sensual and earthy consciousness of sex with an accompanying double standard and devaluation of women. The Song of Solomon is essentially a hymn of appreciation for the sexual potential of the human body. Women as sexual beings were, however, regarded as property, and [...]

In sex, as in most other aspects of life, the older teach the younger. In the vast majority of cases such encounters are with someone close to the child, a family member, another relative, a neighbor, or a “babysitter.” If the “teaching” is sexual, it most often is fondling or oral relations; attempted intercourse is [...]

Homosexuality has long been portrayed as a failure to solidify one’s gender identity. It has been posited, for example, that boys become heterosexual only if they are reasonably certain of their masculinity, and that, in turn, precludes any continuing sexual interest in other boys. A strong sense of masculinity is also thought to heighten boys’ [...]