13th
issue I December 1, 2000
* Does bleeding always take place in a virgin during the first intercourse?
** Many men are often foolish in their ideas about the hymen. The fact that a man seldom is sure whether a woman has or does not have a hymen. Some women have intercourse regularly and retain the hymen. In such cases the hymeneal membrane is large and pliable and merely pushes into the vagina ahead of the male member. Doctors have sometimes found this membrane in pregnant women.
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13th
issue I December 1, 2000
* Does bleeding always take place in a virgin during the first intercourse?
** Many men are often foolish in their ideas about the hymen. The fact that a man seldom is sure whether a woman has or does not have a hymen. Some women have intercourse regularly and retain the hymen. In such cases the hymeneal membrane is large and pliable and merely pushes into the vagina ahead of the male member. Doctors have sometimes found this membrane in pregnant women.
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12th
issue I November 1, 2000
Combined Oral Contraceptive
The Introduction of birth control in
1960 revolutionized contraceptive practices around the
world. Millions of women turned enthusiastically to this
convenient and effective method of preventing pregnancy, but within
a decade reports of serious side effects of the pill began
to appear and the popularity of this method declined
substantially. Now After twenty-five years of observation,
what are the facts about the pill?
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11th
issue I October 1, 2000
Sources
of Sexual Arousal
People
interpret their sexual responses in various ways body
responds to sexual arousal are identical whether the
stimulation comes from touching, kissing, intercourse,
masturbation, fantasy, watching a movie, or reading a book. This
statement does than dancing or playing the violin is "
only" mechanical because certain parts of the body are
involved in these activities. Human sexual response is
multidimensional, with input from feelings and thoughts,
learning and language, personal and cultural values, and many
other sources combining with our biological reflexes to
create a total experience.
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Evaluating
Contraceptive
Effectiveness
and Safety
The decision to use contraception and the choice of one
method over another depend primarily on two practical matters:
Evaluating these two issues is complicated. No one
contraceptive method is always best or safest.
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10th
issue I September1, 2000
The
Prostate and Accessory Organ
The
prostate gland normally about the size of a chestnut, consists of
a muscular and a glandular portion. The prostate is located
directly below the bladder and surrounds the urethra ( the tube through
which urine passes) as it exits from the bladder. The
relationship of the prostate to the urethra is like a large bead
( the prostate) on a string ( the urethra. Because the rectum (
the lowest part of the bowels) is directly behind the prostate,
the prostate can be examined by a physicians during a rectal
examination. This is important because the prostate can become
infected or cancerous.
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Safe
Sex
Not too long ago, contraceptive products could
not be displayed or sold in certain states, abortion were
illegal and birth control methods were not very reliable.
Although times have been changed remarkably, people are now
faced a vast number of birth control products or methods, each
with it's own advantages and disadvantages.
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9th
issue I August 16, 2000
The
Scrotum
The
scrotum is a thin loose sac of skin underneath the penis that is
sparsely covered with pubic hair and contains the testicles
[testes]. The scrotum has a layer of muscle fibers that contract
involuntarily as a result of sexual stimulation, exercise, or
exposure to cold, causing the testes to be
drawn up against the body. In hot weather, the scrotum
relaxes and allows the testes to hang more freely away from the
body. These reflexes of the
scrotum help to maintain a stable temperature in the
testes, an important function because sperm production
[occurring in the testes] is impaired by heat or cold.
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Sex
Determination
Many
simple one celled animals are unisex: each one reproduces itself
by splitting into two cells identical with their parent. man and
other complex animals breed differently. Such species contain
males and females. Special cells from a male and female fuse to
produce a cell that shares hereditary material from both its
parents. This cell multiplies by splitting to give rise to an
adult organism identical with neither parent. So sexual
reproduction produces countless permutations of individuals.
This means there are likely to be some able to endure changes to
their surroundings that kill most of the rest. Sex then, is an
ingenious biological device to help a species to survive in a
changing world.
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8th
issue I August 1, 2000
The
penis-- The end part
The
appearance of the penis varies considerably from one male to
another. These variations are due to differences in color, size,
shape and status of the foreskin (circumcised or uncircumcised).
Concerns
about penile size are common in males of all ages. Although the
size of the nonerect penis differs widely from one male to
another (the average length is approximately 9.5 centimeters or
just under 4inches), in adulthood this variation is less
apparent in the erect state. Erection can be thought of as
“the great equalizer” since men with a penis that is smaller
when flaccid (nonerect) usually have a larger percentage volume
increase during erection than men who have a larger flaccid
penis. Such interest in penis size has several different
components.
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The
Penis
The male sex
organs are more visible and accessible than the female sex organs. Unlike
the clitoris or vagina the penis is involved directly in the
process of urination so that boys become accustomed to touching
and handling their penises at a relatively early age. The sexual
aspects of male organ are hard for a boy to miss. He learns
about them by watching , touching, and playing with his penis as
it becomes erect (pleasurable experience) or by hearing stories
and jokes that graphically portray the sexual and reproductive
purposes of the penis. Despite such exposure, many males are not
fully informed about the details of the anatomy and function of
their sex organs.
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6th Issue I
July 1, 2000
Female
Sexual Anatomy
The Breasts
Although
the breasts are not reproductive organs, they are clearly part
of sexual anatomy. There is a common fallacy that big-
breasted female has become an almost universal sex symbol, but
there that a woman with large breasts has definite sexual
advantage. This has led to number of harmful misconception. For
example, men and women alike come to believe that the larger a
woman’s breasts are, the
more sexually excitable she is or can become. Another fallacy,
still firmly subscribe to by many men, holds that the relatively
flat-chested woman is less able to respond sexually and actually
has little, if any, interest in sex.
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The Vagina
and Internal Sex Organs
The
uterus (womb) is a hollow muscular organ shaped like an inverted
pear somewhat flattened front to back. It is about 7.5
centimeters (3 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide.
Anatomically the uterus consists of several parts. The inside
lining of the uterus (the endometrium) and the muscular
component of the uterus (the myometrium) have separate and
distinct functions.
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The
Vagina and Other Internal Sex Organs
The
vagina
is a muscular internal organ that tilts upward at a 45 degree
angle diagonally pointed toward the small of the back. In the
sexually unstimulated state, the vagina’s walls are collapsed.
In a woman who has never had a child, the back wall of the
vagina averages 8 centimeters (about 3 inches) in length, while
the front wall is approximately 6 centimeters (2 and ½ inches)
long.
The
Vulva
The
external sex organs of the female, called the vulva
(meaning “covering”), consist of the mons, the labia, the
clitoris, and the perineum.
The
mons veneris (Latin:mound of venus: Venus was the Roman
goddess of love ) is the area over the public bone that
consists of cushion of fatty tissue covered by skin and pubic
hair. Since this region has numerous nerve endings, touch or
pressure here may lead to sexual arousal. Many women find that
stimulation of the mons area can be pleasurable as direct
clitoral touch.
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Sexual
Anatomy
Karen
is a twenty years old girl felt her breasts were too small. She
wrote: I hate looking in a mirror or wearing a bathing suit
because I see how flat I am. I would mortified to let a guy
touch or see my breasts.
Brad
is an athletic seventeen years old that quit his schools
basketball teams because his breasts were large. He told us that
his teammates kidded him mercilessly in the locker room and
showers about when he was going to get a bra. He was afraid he
might turn into woman.
A
married couple in their mid-twenties who were sex therapy
patients said they frequently used stimulation of the clitoris
as part of making love. When asked to identify the clitoris
during a physical exam, the husband pointed to a large freckle
on the lower part of his wife’s labia major.
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