One challenge that sexual health researchers face in conducting research is an issue of self-reporting - depending on how a study a designed and how stigmatized certain behaviors are, it can be difficult to know if you are getting true and reliable answers to the questions that you ask. And I’m sure you know this [...]
I recently learned about this interesting opportunity for women to take part in an online sexuality survey. The data collected for this survey are part of a doctoral research study for a woman studying at Oxford. I was told that "to be eligible, women need to be at least 18 years old and in a [...]
Looks like a few sites have picked up the news about our team’s recently announced research partnership with Church & Dwight, maker of Trojan brand condoms. You can read more about it here and here.
Recently, reader (and good friend) Rama commented after a post about parent/teen sex talks that he wondered every now and again how I will talk to my own children about sex one day.
That crosses my mind every now and then too! Especially when I hear from friends and family about the unique challenges of parenthood [...]
Often I get a sense from my students and from readers that a) you can get tested for "everything" and b) that if you get tested and your tests come back negative, then you definitely do not have a STI. Unfortunately, neither is true. We cannot, for example, currently test men for the human papillomavirus [...]
I just read a study that compared the effectiveness of two treatments for premature ejaculation (PE; also called "rapid ejaculation"): an anti-depressant (which some docs have been prescribing for PE over the past few years) or yoga. Seriously. And guess what? Both groups showed significant improvement in their PE. If this doesn’t drive more men to yoga [...]
Sixty years ago tomorrow, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and his research team published the results of thousands of interviews with men about their sexual histories in the ground-breaking book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male which popularly became known as "the Kinsey Report". Listen to this great NPR report about Dr. Kinsey’s work in Answering Dr. [...]
This FOX News article about the health benefits of sex is not exactly accurate. Though sexual activity has indeed been correlated with physical and emotional health, the bulleted list of the benefits of "good sex in a healthy, stable monogamous relationship" are simply not at all what the research itself shows. The research studies that [...]
A recent taping of The Charlie Rose Show focused on the study of human sexuality. Guests included Dr. Julie Heiman (Director of The Kinsey Institute) and Dr. Ed Laumann, of the University of Chicago. Watch the video here.
Many people ask me about the human papillomavirus (HPV), particularly since the release and wide marketing of Gardasil, one of the world’s two HPV vaccines (and the only one currently FDA-approved for sale in the United States). Here are some things that you should know about HPV.
1. HPV is NOT - I repeat, NOT - [...]
