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1. Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Loses Steam
   

   April 23, 2008 -- Health and medical groups on Wednesday called for federal "abstinence-only" sex education funding to be scrapped, saying the programs have not helped lower teens' rates of pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. The calls come as Democrats in Congress consider trying to suspend

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2. Sex Therapists Gauge Ideal Time for Sex
   

   April 3, 2008 -- A new survey aims to set the record straight about how long heterosexual intercourse should last. The verdict: 3 to 13 minutes, with 3-7 minutes deemed "acceptable" and 7 to 13 minutes dubbed "desirable." Thirty-four sex therapists in the U.S. and Canada completed the survey. They h

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3. Intimate Violence Hurts Health
   

   Feb. 7, 2008 -- In America, one in four women and one in nine men suffers physical or emotional violence at the hands of an intimate partner. This harms their long-term health, the CDC reports. The new data come from the largest-ever survey of intimate-partner violence -- a range of behaviors that i

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4. Spousal Spats May Have Health Benefits
   

   Jan. 25, 2008 -- New research on marriage and health shows that married couples who express anger may outlive those who suppress anger. The key is for both spouses to be comfortable expressing anger, rather than one or both suppressing anger, University of Michigan researchers report. "The key matte

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5. Happy Marriage Soothes Job Stress
   

   Jan. 3, 2008 -- A woman's satisfaction with her marriage may affect how quickly she bounces back from a hard day at work. Happily married wives tend to bounce back better after a rocky day on the job, according to a new study of 60 California couples. All of the spouses had full-time jobs. Each coup

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6. Sex Education Works, Study Shows
   

   Dec. 20, 2007 -- Sex education is effective, increasing the chances that teens will delay having sexual intercourse at least until they reach age 15, according to a new study. "We were encouraged that sex education is working," says Trisha Mueller, MPH, an epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta who le

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7. Divorce Not Earth-Friendly?
   

   Dec. 3, 2007 -- High divorce rates may have an environmental impact, a new study suggests. Divorce data came from 12 countries: the U.S., Belarus, Brazil, Cambodia, Cost Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Kenya, Mexico, Romania, South Africa, and Spain. Living conditions vary widely among those countries. But o

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8. Pretty Is as Pretty Does
   

   Dec. 3, 2007 -- To be more physically attractive to the opposite sex, you may want to give your personality a makeover. A new study states that "personality goes a long way toward determining your attractiveness; it can even change people's impressions of how good looking you are." The study include

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9. Women Risk Risky Sex at Worst Time
   

   Nov. 7, 2007 -- Women are most attracted to sex with masculine, high-risk men during ovulation, when they are most likely to get pregnant, a Kinsey Institute study suggests. Heather Rupp, PhD, a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, studied 12 single heterosexual women aged 23 to 28. While hooked

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10. 11% of Men Have Multiple Sex Partners
    

    Oct. 31, 2007 -- Eleven percent of U.S. men have concurrent sex partners, meaning they are in more than one sexual relationship at a time, a new study shows. The study, published online in the American Journal of Public Health, is based on a CDC study conducted from March 2002 through March 2003. Mo

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