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Saturday, July 19, 2008

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‘Pink Viagra’ Boon or Bust for Equal Rights?

While pharmaceutical companies battle to end desire discrepancy, some feminists fear the medicalization of not being in the mood.

A Prophylactic for Free Speech?

Re-emergent STDs lead some to call for restrictions on gay hookup Web sites.

Birds Do It, Bees Do It

Even educated young adults do it, apparently - "it" being the trading of goods for sex, or what the research literature delicately refers to as "exchanges in reproductively relevant currencies."

Sex, Drugs and Ultrasonic Vocalizations

Researchers paying really, really close attention to mice having sex have discovered that males make high-pitched squeals during sexual interactions with females. What’s more, the high-frequency vocalizations tell us something about ourselves.

“Bonk” If You Love Rats

A smidgen of the hoopla surrounding Mary Roach's new book on academics and The Act -- "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" - concerns an Egyptian surgeon, Ahmed Shafik, and his pioneering 1993 work on rats, leisure suits and getting some.