A survey that came out yesterday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents some haunting statistics about rape, stalking and domestic violence. Over the course of a year, more than 12 million men and women are victims of these crimes, usually committed by an intimate partner, and more than 1 million women report being raped each year.
Syphilis is called the "French Disease" by the Germans, the "German Disease" by the French and the "Polish Disease" by the Russians. For the last 60 years the disease was on the wane in America but a strange thing happened on our way to economic ruin and recovery: the bacteria rebounded. One county in North Carolina's beating it back with an unexpected method: Wal-Mart gift cards.
YourTango this week was just like the perfect man: powerful, sexy and bold. In case your liquid lunch did a number on your memory, here's what you missed.
The Health Minister of Lebanon, echoing sentiments from the CDC, has advised that his citizens stop the traditional "hello" kiss. The Swine Flu passes via human contact, primarily the nose and mouth, and it would be best to avoid contact with infected individuals, primarily by their noses and mouths. Ideally, this information will not turn us into a country of Howard Hugheses.
She thought everything was on solid ground. But a few days after her boyfriend came back from a visit she was in terrible pain. Her worst fears were confirmed when her doctor told her that she had herpes. At first she denied that he could have done this to her but then the truth dawned on her, he had given her an incurable disease.
The figures from 2006 on teen pregnancy are in. And teen pregnancy beat common sense. Teen pregnancy has been risen for the first time since 1991. Some experts say that it's a small insignificant bump. Critics blame abstinence-only sexual education.
