News tagged with sexual desire
UCSB researcher studies hormone levels and sexual motivation among young women
Feeling frisky? If so, chances are greater your estrogen level –– and, perhaps, fertility –– are hitting their monthly peak. If not, you're more likely experiencing a profusion of desire-deadening progesterone, and ...
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Apr 25, 2013 |
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When it comes to food aphrodisiacs, expert says look for nutrition at first bite rather than love
It's been said that food is the language of love. If so, can certain foods—or aphrodisiacs—promote romantic feelings or sexual desire?
Health
Feb 06, 2013 |
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21 minutes to marital satisfaction: Study shows how minimal intervention can preserve marital quality over time
Marital satisfaction—so critical to health and happiness – generally declines over time. A brief writing intervention that helps spouses adopt a more objective outlook on marital conflict could be the answer.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 05, 2013 |
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Drug abuse impairs sexual performance in men even after rehabilitation
Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, and Santo Tomas University in Colombia have found that drug abuse negatively affects sexual performance in men even after years of abstinence. This finding contradicts other ...
Health
Jan 17, 2013 |
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Grief is not a disease, but cancer is: What about erectile dysfunction or gambling addiction?
"Understanding peoples' attitudes about whether states of being should be considered diseases can inform social discourse regarding a number of contentious social and health public policy issues," says Kari ...
Health
Dec 03, 2012 |
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During IVF sexual relationships, satisfaction, can suffer
An Indiana University study has found that women undergoing in-vitro fertilization report that the process of infertility treatment has many negative impacts on their sexual relationship with their partner. Little attention ...
Health
Oct 30, 2012 |
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Viagra can help prostate cancer patients maintain sex lives
(HealthDay)—Prostate cancer patients who received Viagra before and after their radiation therapy had improved sexual function, according to a new study.
Cancer
Oct 29, 2012 |
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'Viagra for women' being trialed
Reaching orgasm remains elusive for nearly 30 per cent of women, but a new ad hoc treatment currently under trial, may drastically reduce that number.
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Oct 29, 2012 |
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Weight loss does not improve fertility
(Medical Xpress)—Losing weight does not lead to improved fertility in women, but does improve sexual function, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Overweight and Obesity
Oct 17, 2012 |
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New psychology study reveals unexamined costs of rape
Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are commonly associated with sexual assault, but a new study from The University of Texas at Austin shows that female victims suffer from a wide spectrum of debilitating effects ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 09, 2012 |
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Magazine articles jeopardize and empower young women's sexuality
Los Angeles, CA (September 4, 2012) While the effects of sexualized media on young women has long been debated, a new study finds that women who read sex-related magazine articles from popular women's magazines like Cosmopolitan are le ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Women with diabetes more likely to experience sexual dissatisfaction
Women with diabetes are just as likely to be interested in, and engage in, sexual activity as non-diabetic women, but they are much more likely to report low overall sexual satisfaction, according to a UCSF study.
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Jul 25, 2012 |
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I want to know where love is: Research develops first brain map of love and desire
Thanks to modern science, we know that love lives in the brain, not in the heart. But where in the brain is it – and is it in the same place as sexual desire? A recent international study is the first to draw an exact ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 20, 2012 |
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Experiment shows visual cortex in women quiets when viewing porn
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Groningen Medical Centre in the Netherlands have found that for women at least, watching pornographic videos tends to quiet the part of the brain most heavily involved ...
Neuroscience
Apr 20, 2012 |
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Brain scans can predict weight gain and sexual activity: study
At a time when obesity has become epidemic in American society, Dartmouth scientists have found that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans may be able to predict weight gain. In a study published April ...
Neuroscience
Apr 17, 2012 |
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