Published Wednesday, January 2, 2008
SARAH KERSHAW
For years he had numbed his pain and fear with drugs, alcohol and anonymous sex. But in a flash of clarity one day, when the crystal meth was wearing off, Javier Arriola dragged himself to a clinic to get an H.I.V. test, years after he stopped using condoms.
He knew the answer before he received the results, but it was far worse than he thought: At age 29, he had full-blown AIDS.
Link: The Associated Press: British Growing More Liberal on Sex
By JILL LAWLESS – 9 hours ago
LONDON (AP) — The buttoned-up Brit may be a myth.
British people’s attitudes to sex and marriage have grown increasingly liberal over the last two decades, according to a study released Wednesday. But behavior has changed less than opinions.
The annual British Social Attitudes Survey said 70 percent of people think premarital sex is acceptable, while less than a third believe homosexuality is wrong.
Link: Dirty air mutates sperm, study confirms
Margaret Munro, Canwest News Service
A Health Canada-led study of mice has confirmed that pollution wafting off highways and out of steel mills triggers sperm mutations that can be passed to the next generation.
Polluted air near Hamilton Harbour lead to a significant increase in sperm mutations in the mice that breathed the dirty air for 10 weeks, according to the study published Monday in the U.S. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
Link: Huge survey reveals teen sex habits
Reuters
Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008
NEW YORK - A “substantial minority” of 15-year-olds have had sexual intercourse, according results of a survey of 33,943 adolescents from 24 European and North American countries.
In addition, 13.2 percent of the sexually active 15-year-olds surveyed reported that they used no form of contraception during their last intercourse episode.
