HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) — Better health translates
into better sex lives, with healthy people more likely to engage in sex
(and good sex at that) and to express an interest in sex, new research
finds.

Reuters - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

Reuters - World travel can make anyone sick but men and women tend to suffer different illnesses with women more prone to stomach problems and men at higher risk of fevers and sexually transmitted diseases, Swiss researchers found.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) — Poorly fitting condoms not only
boost the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, they also reduce sexual
pleasure during intercourse, a new study has found.

Reuters - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has partially rejected a patent on Pfizer Inc’s impotence drug Viagra because it works in a way similar to the Chinese herb Yin Yang Huo, which is sold on websites under the colorful name Horny Goat Weed.

AP - The intimate details of the sex life of a former state legislative aide became fodder for the jury in a public corruption trial Tuesday as he explained that his affair with an aide ended prematurely because he struggled to perform sexually.

AFP - Experts and workers on the ground said Friday that men had a key role to play in the fight against female circumcision in Africa, a day before the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation.

Reuters - Abstinence-only sex education can work — if it’s based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes about other types of risky behavior like smoking and drinking, new research shows.

AP - A South African presidential spokesman on Tuesday called a newspaper story that the country’s polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock “a private, personal issue” without confirming or denying the report.

Reuters - South African opposition parties accused President Jacob Zuma on Monday of a cavalier attitude to safe sex that is hurting the HIV/AIDS campaign after news that a woman not one of his wives had had his 20th child.