Abstinence-only program helps kids postpone sex (Reuters) Reuters - Abstinence-only sex education can work -- if it's based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes about other types of risky behavior like smoking and drinking, new research shows. Zuma told 20th child harms safe sex drive (Reuters) Reuters - South African opposition parties accused President Jacob Zuma on Monday of a cavalier attitude to safe sex that is hurting the HIV/AIDS campaign after news that a woman not one of his wives had had his 20th child. SAfrican leader criticized over love child report (AP)
Abstinence-Only Classes Reduced Sexual Activity, Study Found (HealthDay) HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Adolescents who took abstinence-only sex education classes were more likely to delay having sex, a new study shows. Fake Drugs Bought on the Web Pose Big Health Risks (HealthDay) HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends. Argentine president: Eat pork, spice your sex life (AP)
Pork better for sex than Viagra? (Reuters)
UK-Odd Summary (Reuters) Reuters - A prank has had serious repercussions for an Indonesian boy facing criminal charges because he caused a classmate to be stung by a bee, the Jakarta Post reported Thursday. The English-language daily reported that the third-grade student -- whose age was not given but who would be about seven or eight years old -- was being tried at the Su...... Amnesty says Burkina maternal care can be "lethal" (Reuters) Reuters - Thousands of women are dying every year during pregnancy and childbirth in the African state of Burkina Faso because discrimination stops them from accessing sexual health services, Amnesty International said Wednesday. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AFP - Experts and workers on the ground said Friday that men had a key role to play in the fight against female circumcision in Africa, a day before the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation.
AP - A South African presidential spokesman on Tuesday called a newspaper story that the country's polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock "a private, personal issue" without confirming or denying the report.
AP - Argentina's president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it.
Reuters - Argentina's president recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra Wednesday, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating barbecued pork.