Sexual Orientation

UMass Amherst, international team suggest new route to social change, intergroup harmonyCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - For more than 50 years, social scientists and practitioners have suggested that having members of…

Young women with low condom use during sex find visual sexual cues less pleasant and less evocativeCredit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (January 27, 2020) - Data show that young adult women in the United States have high rates of sexually…

Dr. Ruth will establish psychology scholarship for research and academia at Ben-Gurion UniversityCredit: American Associates, Ben-Gurion University NEW YORK...January 13, 2020 - Renowned psychosexual therapist, Dr. Ruth…

Worldwide, the burden of glaucoma--quantified as health loss--is higher in men than in women, according to a recent analysis published in Acta Ophthalmologica. The burden of glaucoma was estimated as disability-adjusted life years…

Washington, DC - Gay men and lesbian women have often been the targets of prejudice and even violence in society. To better understand what shapes these attitudes and prejudices, Maria Laura Bettinsoli, Alexandra Suppes, and Jamie Napier…

In order to help people with fear of childbirth, there must be trust between the patient and the healthcare staff. But for many lesbian and bisexual women and transgender people, this trust never develops. These are the results of a study…

HIV and the transgender community in Russia Although HIV infection rates are high among the transgender community in Russia, many transgender people know very little about the virus, as well as their own health status. In Russia's first…

An analysis published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology revealed considerable sex differences when considering links between psoriasis and metabolic disorders. In the study of 3,723 adults, 25.8% of…

Exposure to traffic pollution was associated with a higher risk of obesity in Mexican American women, but not in men. The findings are published in Obesity. In the study of 7,826 Mexican American adults, more than half (53.6%) of…

Study finds LGB students with supportive family are less likely to be targeted Having a supportive family environment makes school-age LGB children in the UK significantly less likely to be victims of bullying, according to new research by…