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Relationship Violence Common in College
July 8, 2008 -- More than four in 10 college students have been the victim of relationship violence by a partner, friend, or acquaintance, according to a new study. "All forms of relationship violence are prevalent among male and female college students; almost half of the students had experienced r
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Facebook Benefits Extroverts Most
June 25, 2008 -- People who are more socially isolated in real life tend to be more isolated in the virtual world of social networking web sites like Facebook, new research suggests. Facebook users in the study who reported feeling anxiety and fear in their face-to-face relationships spent more time
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Survey Debunks Myths About Teen Sex
May 21, 2008 -- A new government survey detailing sexual activities among America's adolescents dispels the notion that teens often substitute oral sex for intercourse. "There is a widespread belief that teens engage in nonvaginal forms of sex, especially oral sex, as a way to be sexually active whi
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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