Myth: a woman cannot get pregnant if she has sex while she is having her period.
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Coming out to my parents: from horror to pride
When Nakshatra goes out for a coffee with his mother, they’re both on the look-out for cute men. “Do you fancy that guy?” she’ll say.
Things haven’t always been this way. Growing up in a village, he became aware of his feelings aged 16. A year later, after a move to Mumbai, he told his parents he was gay. His mum said she wished he was dead.
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Sex A-ZCuba's top sexpert backs the Dutch way
Dutch-style sex education works, says Mariela Castro Espín, daughter of the Cuban president.
As head of Cuba’s National Centre for Sexual Education, she praised Holland’s approach – and Love Matters – at the World Congress for Sexual Health in Glasgow.
Campaigners clash on cutting the clitoris
Can you still have orgasms if your clitoris has been cut off? Certainly, say European researchers at the World Congress for Sexual Health, after studying African women who’ve been ‘circumcised’.
Doubting critics say the research only encourages female genital mutilation. But you don’t help women by telling them they’re ‘mutilated’, the researchers argue.
Someone thinks you’re sexy however you look
“No matter where you are on the attractiveness scale, there’s always someone out there who finds you attractive,” says Danish researcher Gert Martin Hald.
He stumbled upon this finding in a study on how people respond when strangers chat them up. Hald told Love Matters about his surprising unpublished discoveries at the World Congress for Sexual Health.
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