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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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Vaginas with teeth — and other sexual myths

Your genitals are connected to your nose. Women are infertile males. Orgasm is necessary to make a baby. Masturbation leads to insanity. Menstrual blood is actually sperm gone bad. At one time or another, medical science believed all these statements. What is it about sex that allows the imagination of doctors and the scientifically-minded to run free?

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Medical marijuana requests climb sky high

The number of ailing people turning to medical marijuana to ease their symptoms has spiked this year, say dispensary owners in some of the 13 states where it's legal.

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Her husband feels guilty after sex. What gives?

Geez, what do you want? You’ve had 27 years of great sex. May you have 27 more. What’s a little guilt? It clearly hasn’t stopped him.

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‘Sex surrogates’ put personal touch on therapy

“Jane” looks to be somewhere shy of 40 years old, though she’s squirrelly about telling me her age. She is, as she likes to say, “unaltered,” not a supermodel type. She’s slightly soft, ample in a pleasing way, with brown hair and an open face. I suppose you might say she’s average, but she earns part of her living in a very unaverage fashion.

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After the hysterectomy, her engine is revving

Did a hysterectomy shift her libido into overdrive? Now that a wandering husband has returned, should his wife boost her intimate exercises? Sexploration answers your queries. Got a question? .

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Cancer deaths not deterred by prostate tests

Nearly every man in the United States who’s made it past 50 has endured the indignity and the doubt of prostate screening tests designed to detect cancer. And nearly every man has wondered: “Is this worth it?”

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Recession may worsen spread of exotic diseases

To most Americans, diseases with names like dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria, Chagas and leishmaniasis might sound like something out of a Victorian explorer’s tales of hacking through African jungles. Yet ongoing epidemics of these diseases are killing millions of people around the world. Now, disease experts are increasingly concerned these and other infections may become as familiar in the United States as West Nile or Lyme disease.

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Adultery site not the end of marriage

Lately, it seems, there is no escaping Ashley Madison. The Web site, that is, not any person, real or fictional, who may or may not be named Ashley Madison. You may have read or heard about it.

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