background the pre-marital sex and live-in relationship among young people are increasing at an alarming rate. remote consequences of such high risk behaviors are increase in the incidence of stds (including hiv), unsafe and illegal abortion, adolescent pregnancy and motherhood, single mother child/abandoned child, juvenile delinquency and many more. objectives the aim of this study was to inve...

despite the fact that hiv epidemic is mainly driven by injection drug use in iran, partners of people who inject drugs (pwid) have been seriously neglected in terms of effective preventive interventions. currently, sexual partners of pwid might have access to some harm reduction services at voluntary counselling and testing (vct) centers; however, their needs have not been effectively targeted ...

background: the objective of this study was to describe the extent of sexual activity in adolescent school girls. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with prolective collection of data carried out at lycée general leclerc, yaounde (cameroon), from october 1 to november 30, 2011. heterosexual coitus was considered as sexual activity. a pretested self-administered questionnaire was proposed...

OBJECTIVE To analyze expectations for sexual life after radical prostatectomy in patients and their partners, and its influence on sexual motivation and bothers in the postoperative period. METHODS A total of 162 patients who underwent retropubic radical prostatectomy and their partners were evaluated. The patients' sexual function, sexual bother and expectations for postoperative sexual life...

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Background: Infertility is one of the most common and important subjects in today’s obstetrics and gynecology. Immunological factors such as the presence of antisperm antibodies (ASA) are challenging etiologies for infertility. This study was performed to determine the correlation between the type of sexual practices (oral‚ anal and vaginal during menstruation) and the ASA levels in semen and i...

INTRODUCTION Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a prevalent vulvovaginal pain condition that is associated with sexual and relational consequences for women and their partners. Greater perceived quality of sexual communication has been associated with women's lower pain during intercourse and with couples' better sexual and relational well-being. Whether couples' collaborative (eg, expressing fee...

Background and Objective: Genital warts, the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD), are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). Few studies have been performed on Iranian women with genital warts or cervix cancer but there isno documented data about genital warts and HPV genotyping in Iranian men. In this study, we determined HPV genotypesin 108 male and females with anogenital warts in ...

OBJECTIVES Online venues might facilitate sexual encounters, but the extent to which finding partners online is associated with sexual risk behaviour and sexual health outcomes is unclear. We describe use of the internet to find sexual partners in a representative sample in Britain. METHODS The third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3) was a cross-sectional probabili...