OBJECTIVE We investigated the patterns of sexual activity during pregnancy and explored all beliefs related to coitus during pregnancy in women with the objective of promoting awareness and assisting health care providers in understanding and dispelling fears/misconceptions prevalent in our culture. METHODS A cross-sectional, KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice) study was conducted using quest...

The hedgehog gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a secreted protein (HH) that plays a vital role in cell fate and patterning. Here we describe a protein complex that mediates signal transduction from HH. The complex includes the products of at least three genes: fused (a protein-serine/threonine kinase), cubitus interruptus (a transcription factor), and costal2 (a kinesin-like protein). The...

Abstract Background Misconceptions about the usefulness of condoms and other contraceptives still expose many unmarried adolescents to risk unwanted teenage pregnancies sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). This study explored beliefs misconceptions among in Ebonyi state, south-east Nigeria. Method A qualitative was undertaken six local government areas southeast Data were collected within a ...

Three new Hagnagora Druce species (Geometridae, Larentiinae) are described: Hagnagora richardi Brehm, sp. n. from Ecuador, Hagnagora hedwigae Brehm, sp. n. from Ecuador, and Hagnagora mirandahenrichae Brehm, sp. n. from Costa Rica. A checklist of taxa assigned to Hagnagora is provided. Hagnagora is provisionally divided into six clades: the anicata clade (6 species), the buckleyi clade (3 speci...

OBJECTIVE To find out whether taking images of the male and female genitals during coitus is feasible and to find out whether former and current ideas about the anatomy during sexual intercourse and during female sexual arousal are based on assumptions or on facts. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING University hospital in the Netherlands. METHODS Magnetic resonance imaging was used to st...

Five subsamples of cervical cancer patients and matched con trols, totaling 416 subjects in each group, were compared with respect to selected sexual variables. All samples were drawn from the same hospital population as part of a larger multidimensional procedure. Age at first coitus was the variable of greatest discriminatory power, strongly overshadowing all other significant differences, an...