Health

Extra! Extra! Leave it to The Daily Telegraph to get you with a header like that. The Telegraph recounts the story of Michelle Thompson who thought, until recently, that she was simply too demanding for men to keep up with her sex drive. Turns out she has Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome, or PSAS, which sounds…continue reading.

The D.C. Council Committee on Health recently conducted a survey of D.C. high school students attitudes about sex ed, which found that students are unimpressed with the curriculum. Surprise, surprise. What is most interesting about this study to me is not so much that most teens think talking to a school nurse is like talking…continue reading.

A man and a woman fall in love. A man and a woman get married. A man and a woman have sex for the first time without a condom. A woman breaks out in hives. That’s essentially the story of Mike and Julie Boyde, a couple living in Pennsylvania. “Pretty much right after [he ejaculated],…continue reading.

Sorry, honey, I have a headache. Classic excuse to avoid sex. Total crap, right? Maybe not. Get this–sex is one of the major triggers for transient global amnesia (TGA), a condition that causes people to lose their ability to retain recent memories. How does sex do this? It produces a sudden change in blood flow,…continue reading.