BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Despite the focus by public health programmes on condoms, chastity, or monogamy, people use a much wider variety of strategies to minimize their personal risk of sexually transmissible disease (STD). The objective of this study was to compile a comprehensive list of personal and societal STD avoidance strategies. METHODS Data from clinical and research observations, compu...

This study focuses on Catholics' views towards homosexuality. The discussion is based on an ethnographic survey involving interviews with priests and lay leaders as well as participant observation of daily life in a working-class neighborhood in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil. The analysis points to persistent prejudice against homosexuality in the neighborhood and among Catholic clergy and l...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Despite the focus by public health programmes on condoms, chastity, or monogamy, people use a much wider variety of strategies to minimise their personal risk of sexually transmissible disease (STD). The objective of this study was to compile a comprehensive list of personal and societal STD avoidance strategies. METHODS Data from clinical and research observations, compu...

Background/objective: Despite the focus by public health programmes on condoms, chastity, or monogamy, people use a much wider variety of strategies to minimise their personal risk of sexually transmissible disease (STD). The objective of this study was to compile a comprehensive list of personal and societal STD avoidance strategies. Methods: Data from clinical and research observations, compu...

Next-generation genomic sequencing technologies have made it possible to directly map mutations responsible for phenotypes of interest via direct sequencing. However, most mapping strategies proposed to date require some prior genetic analysis, which can be very time-consuming even in genetically tractable organisms. Here we present a de novo method for rapidly and robustly mapping the physical...

Introduction Female circumcision (the partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia) is widely practised in the Sudan. It has persisted for centuries because of lack of awareness and knowledge about its adverse physical and psycho-social consequences and because of a firm belief in its supposed benefits of ensuring female chastity and securing marriage and subsequent harmonious f...

Vitex agnus-castus has a long tradition as a herbal remedy and was used in ancient times not only as an anaphrodisiac and for preserving chastity but also against diverse disturbances of the female genital system. In actual clinical trials, the fruit Agni casti fructus was shown to relieve premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and especially breast swelling and pain, due to its dopaminergic effect. Altho...

Competition for mates has resulted in sophisticated mechanisms of male control over female reproduction. Antiaphrodisiacs are pheromones transferred from males to females during mating that reduce attractiveness of females to subsequent courting males. Antiaphrodisiacs generally help unreceptive females reduce male harassment. However, lack of control over pheromone release by females and male ...

This research to describe activities of Martandang in the Mandailing tribe which has changed/lost, even though it is a custom regulating how get along with teenagers before marriage and local wisdom values. used qualitative ethnographic approach. Techniques collecting data were carried out by in-depth interviews, participatory observation oral history 10 native speakers who had done martandang....