case Report A 46-year-old woman came to the emergency department complaining of severe, sharp, upper abdominal pain that had begun less than 1 hour earlier. The most notable aspect of her history was that the abrupt onset of this excruciating pain occurred within 5 minutes after coitus. The pain was the most severe she had ever experienced. She described it as steady, burning, and located vague...

Hypothalamic norepinephrine (NE) plays an important role in the control of sexual behavior and in the secretion of gonadotropin. Our previous study showed that coitus induced simultaneous increases in hypothalamic NE and GnRH releases in female but not in male rabbits. To investigate the activities in noradrenergic neurons during the coitus-induced process of an LH surge, we measured tyrosine h...

Urethral coitus is a rare condition seen especially in cases with vaginal agenesis or hymen imperforatus. A female patient with sexual dysfunction and primary amenorrhea diagnosed with urethral coitus is presented in this report. These cases present recurrent urinary tract infections, dysuria, and dyspareunia besides primary amenorrhea. There was no megalourethra or vaginal introitus in our cas...

In view of the developmental approach to sexual behavior, this article presents the stages of sexual behavior leading to coitus in four grades of high school students in Israel and the sociodemographic factors associated with initiating coitus. Analyses were based on data from the first national study dealing comprehensively with sexuality in 30 years. A self-administered questionnaire was comp...

Vaginal rupture leading to pneumoperitoneum is well documented to occur after hysterectomy or surgery. However, it is extremely rare in a young woman following conventional intercourse. We report one such case. A 16-year-old woman presented to the accident and emergency department with a clinical picture of an acute abdomen. Results of radiography showed gas under the diaphragm, suggesting the ...

A one year study was carried out to determine the outcome of the seminal fluid parameters collected via masturbation and coitus interruptus in 151 patients who were undergoing intrauterine insemination (IUI) and patients who came for seminal analysis. There were no statistically significant differences in terms of volume, concentration, progressive motility and normal morphology from specimens ...