The virus is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact with a person who is infected, whether or not that person has symptoms. The virus can also be transmitted through the saliva of a person with facial molluscum. It is also believed that the virus can be transmitted through inanimate objects, such as towels. Multiple members of the [...]
Approximately 70 percent of adults have oral herpes by the time they reach the age of forty. Oral herpes infections are usually caused by HSV-1. Most people acquire oral herpes through nonsexual transmission before the age of five, such as from an adult with oral HSV-1 who kisses them or from other children. Many people [...]
Symptoms of donovanosis usually appear between eight and eighty days after infection. The most common symptoms are persistent ulcers where infection occurred (genitals, anal area, or mouth), which are dark red and can cover a large area. They usually start as red nodules or bumps under the skin, which then ulcerate. The ulcers can grow [...]
Who Should Get It? Some doctors recommend laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy in men who are at higher risk of having cancer that has spread beyond the prostate. This group includes men with stage B2 or B3 disease, high Gleason scores (8, 9, 10); elevated acid phosphatase levels; or a PSA score higher than 20. It also [...]
Genetic Susceptibility
Most important about these findings is that they firmly establish prostate cancer as a disease that, like breast and colon cancer, is due at least in part to genetic susceptibility.
The theory here is that cancer doesn’t just happen overnight; a whole chain of genetic events must occur—picture a whole row of dominos being overturned—before [...]
Sexual assault is any unwanted sexual act that involves force, threat of force, or illegal seduction. It ranges from the more serious crime of rape to unwanted touching of the sex organs. Illegal seduction is nonviolent, coercive coaxing, often directed toward children. This includes obscene telephone calls, exhibitionism, and voyeurism.
In the past, forced sex was [...]
HIV infections weaken the body’s ability to fight disease and can cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)—the last stage of HIV infection. HIV is the most dangerous sexually transmitted infection, and it affects people of all ages. It is now the leading cause of death for American women and men between 25 and 44 years [...]
The influence of Freud’s and Ellis’s ideas interacted with other cultural phenomena, setting the stage for a new kind of research on sexuality which adopted the quantitative methods and techniques of the natural sciences.
Before the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey and others), however, only a few such studies had appeared, dealing [...]
To get some perspective on the degree of permissiveness or repressiveness of parents, Sears tabulated mothers’ reported evaluations of their reactions to sex play among children and the severity of the pressure put on children. Only two percent rated themselves as “entirely permissive” and an additional fourteen percent of the mothers reported that they had [...]
It is a social and cultural imperative to assign an infant as male or female, in accord with external genital status. The regularity with which infants are assigned as male or female masks the social importance of that event for the child, the parents, and the family. Only when an infant is born with a [...]