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Staying Healthy Means An Active Sex Life Too! (The Washington Post)
Here’s another reason to try to stay healthy: It extends your sex life as you age, according to a new study.
Stacy Tessler Lindau and Natalia Gavrilova of the University of Chicago analyzed data about health and sexual activity collected by two nationally representative surveys. The surveys involved 3,032 adults aged 25 to 74 and 3,005 [...]
Children Face Felony Sexting Charges In Indiana (The Smoking Gun)
A pair of Indiana middle school students are the latest minors to face felony charges for allegedly “sexting” naked photos to each other. The students–a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy–were charged in connection with an incident last week at Ben Franklin Middle School in Valparaiso. The students are each facing felony child exploitation and [...]
Sexting Becoming More Common With Teens
Think your kid is not “sexting”? Think again.
Sexting — sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online — is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim consequences for those who do it. More than a quarter of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, an Associated Press-MTV [...]
Senators Reject Toughening Abortion Rules
In a vote with far-reaching political implications, senators writing a health care overhaul Wednesday rejected a bid to strengthen anti-abortion provisions in the legislation — which could reach the Senate floor in the next two weeks.
The 13-10 vote by the Senate Finance Committee could threaten support for the health care bill from some Catholics who [...]
Survey Finds ‘Sexting’ Becoming A Common Teen Experience
A new survey on kids in cyberspace finds that one in five teens have “sexted” — sent or received sexually suggestive, nude or nearly nude photos through cellphone text messages or e-mail.
Most teens who sexted sent the photos to girlfriends or boyfriends, but 11% sent them to strangers, according to the study made public today [...]
‘Sexting’ Now Becoming An International Problem
It may seem like harmless fun to a 15-year-old wanting to impress their new boyfriend or girlfriend.
But the practice of sexting – sending nude or semi-nude images of oneself to others via mobile phones – is having unintended and, in some cases, tragic consequences.
The risk of having one’s private pictures distributed among schoolmates or uploaded [...]
Dating Advice: 7 Powerful Ways to Keep Your Love Alive
When we fall in love, we usually think that’s all we’ll need to be happy. However, when reality sets in and we have our first real argument, we get hit with the realization that our partner isn’t perfect.
In the beginning of a relationship we do our best to give our partner the benefit of the [...]
MIDDLE CLASS LIFE: Sex And Other Perks After The Children Leave Home
(OPRAH.com) — Jane Shure wasn’t surprised by her grief — the sense of deep loss, the resonating silence in the house — when her youngest daughter left for college; what shocked her was how quickly it dissipated.
When adult kids fly away from home, some empty nesters find they’re having more fun
“At first simply driving past [...]
Poll: More Americans Calling Themselves Pro-Life
A Gallup Poll released Friday found that 51 percent of Americans now call themselves pro-life rather than pro-choice on the issue of abortion, the first time a majority gave that answer in the 15 years that Gallup has asked the question.
The findings, obtained in an annual survey on values and beliefs conducted May 7-10, marked [...]
Study: Teens Smoke Pot to Cope With Stress, Health Problems
Many adolescents who smoke marijuana aren’t trying to get high, but are instead using pot as a way to cope with their mental and physical health problems, Canadian researchers report.
Furthermore, teens who smoke pot to relieve their depression, anxiety, grief or stress, or help them sleep better or concentrate, often say they do so because [...]
