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The lifestyle changes and medications used to reduce risk factors for heart disease may also improve sexual function in men with erectile dysfunction, according to a new study. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., analyzed six previous studies from four countries involving 740 men to determine how lifestyle changes and drugs used to treat risk factors for heart disease affected the severity of their erectile dysfunction (ED).   Each study reviewed reported improvements in

Research varies in the study of infidelity. When researchers send out questionnaires, asking men and women if they have ever cheated, men seem to brag about their supposed infidelities. But women minimize, lie and cover up their affairs. Social anthropologist Helen Fisher says this is for a good reason – women have traditionally suffered more than men from the revelation of infidelity. Women can lose their children, their financial support and even risk domestic violence as a result. Almo

More U.S. women seem to be using the “morning-after” pill now that the emergency contraceptive is available over-the-counter, a new study finds. Researchers found that between 2006 and 2008, about twice as many women ages 15 to 44 said they had used emergency contraception, compared with four to six years earlier—when it was still restricted to prescription-only. The emergency contraceptive Plan B has been available in the U.S. since 1999. The pills, which contain the hormone proge

More and more women are suffering loss of libido but drug manufacturers are wrong to cash in. In our increasingly sexualised society, the pressure to be a domestic nymphette has never been greater, says LINDA KELSEY. When my menopause began three years ago, just as my marriage was ending, I assumed that sexual passion would never be more than a distant memory. At first it felt almost unseemly that, as a woman in my 50s, I should expect — or even hope — to find sexual fulfilment again. And in

Any woman knows that most men love breasts. So, tell me: If you love breasts so much, why do you so often neglect or manhandle them during sex? The truth is, that while our breasts may be a pleasure to behold, they’re even more of a pleasure to a woman when held (and caressed) correctly. In one study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, nipple/breast stimulation caused or enhanced sexual arousal in 82 percent of women, yet 25 percent asked their partner to stop stimulating their nipple