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Husband’s dirty deeds a turn-off for wife

Can straight talk convince a dirty man to change his ways? And will a woman judge a man if he has a crooked erection? Sexploration answers your most intimate queries. Got a question? . We'll post answers to select questions.

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Circumcise or not? Parents, you’re on your own

Over just the past week, two reputable medical journals published articles on male circumcision and came to totally different conclusions, leaving parents of newborn boys with a stark realization they are on their own, without a consensus from the medical profession.

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Year of sex: Ambien foreplay, going ‘hiking’

As 2009 dips its depressing self into a sea of welcome oblivion, let us pause in our collective finger-crossing that 2010 and the decade to come are entirely more peaceful and prosperous. And since we’re pausing, why not pass the time by thinking about sex?

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Do you get good abs from sex — or vice versa?

Can breaking a sweat in the bedroom give you a six-pack? Can you skip the gym if your amorous exploits are adventurous enough? Sexploration answers your most intimate queries. Got a question? . We'll post answers to select questions.

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Blood test tells gender of fetus early as 5 weeks

Parents usually have to wait until nearly the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, or even into the second, to find out whether they're expecting a boy or a girl. But a new technique done with a simple blood draw from the expectant mother can reveal the gender of a developing fetus as early as five weeks into a pregnancy.

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Dark shadows loom over ‘facilitated’ talk

On Nov. 27, 2007, just a few days after returning to school from Thanksgiving break, 14-year-old Aislinn Wendrow created a shock wave by saying her father had “banged” her. Aislinn didn’t say it, exactly; she typed it on the keyboard of a digital device with the help of Cynthia Scarsella, her facilitator and an employee of Michigan’s Walled Lake school district.

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Being thankful ... you’re not like mom and dad

Thanksgiving brings the annual mix of happy anticipation and dread as we gather at the old homestead for a day of food, celebration and family politics.

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Vicarious thrill: He wants her to be hit on

Her boyfriend wants her to dress sexier — to attract dudes. What's up with that? Also, what could be causing painful cramps during orgasm? Sexploration answers your most intimate queries. Got a question? . We'll post answers to select questions.

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Dangerous liaisons: Why we find vampires sexy

It’s official: there are now enough vampires flying around the pop culture landscape to fill Transylvania Stadium during homecoming.

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When she earns more, he aims to please

Derrick Hayes’s wife, an oncology nurse, makes twice the money he does in his job as a juvenile corrections officer in Columbus, Ga.

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Her breast cancer, his feelings of helplessness

When Jerry Koh’s wife, Anne, was diagnosed with breast cancer in the spring of 2008, he was slammed by a wave of feelings.

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New tool to fight syphilis? Wal-Mart gift cards

North Carolina health officials have chosen an unlikely weapon to battle the climbing rates of syphilis in the United States: Wal-Mart gift cards. During a recent weekend, they canvassed neighborhoods offering the cards to anyone willing to be tested.

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Allergic to sex? It really can happen

Can a woman be allergic to sperm? Can a stroke ruin a man’s sexual desire? And if you’re turned on by noses, are you a nasophiliac? Sexploration answers your queries.

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Student steroid tests get ‘F,’ say some experts

Thousands of high school athletes are tested each school year for performance enhancing drugs. But out of the multitudes of costly screenings, only a handful of students have tested positive.

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Candlelit dinners spark romance — and toxins

You may be ingesting more during those romantic, candlelit dinners than a nice cabernet and a lamb chop. Side of benzene, anyone?

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Marriage eludes high-achieving black women

Michelle Obama may have become an archetypal black female success story — law career, strong marriage, happy children — but the reality is often very different for other highly educated black women.

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Dolphin-hunt film puts tourists in bind

“The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive.

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If sex is a yawn, you may actually be turned on

Does yawning in the heat of the moment mean you're bored — or what? And can sex improve your skin? Sexploration answers your queries. Got a question? .

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Marriage thrives despite our evolving sex lives

It may have worked as a plotline for “Sex and the City,” but according to new  government figures, very few American women need fear being an “old maid.”

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Yes! Yes! Oh, no! Coming oh so close to orgasm

What's a woman to do who can't quite attain the Big O? Also, a man fears his wife will leave him for a vibrator. Sexploration answers your queries. Got a question? .

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Cloning? Polygamy? Affair is worse, say most

This spectacle of teary politicians confessing to some sexual imbroglio or another has become so routine it’s become a kind of new reality show: David Vitter, Elliot Spitzer, John Edwards, John Ensign, Larry Craig, Bill Clinton, Mark Foley, Portland mayor Sam Adams, L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi (though he’s proud rather than teary) and now .

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Actor’s death raises bizarre questions

Shock over reports of actor was compounded when officials there said he was found hanging with a rope tied around his neck and genitals. Those circumstances have led to speculation that the "Kill Bill" star's death was a case of accidental auto-erotic asphyxiation — death while masturbating and restricting the flow of oxygen to the brain as a means to intensify orgasm.

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Picturing sex: Kinsey explores what turns us on

Art historian and museum curator Jennifer Cahn wasn’t sure what to expect when she was asked by the Kinsey Institute to select the works for the organization’s fourth annual juried art show.

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Amid swine flu outbreak, racism goes viral

“No contact anywhere with an illegal alien!” conservative talk show host Michael Savage advised his U.S. listeners this week on how to avoid the swine flu. “And that starts in the restaurants" where he said, you “don’t know if they wipe their behinds with their hands!”

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