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Homosexuals Don't Reproduce: False!

Gilles Herrada, Ph.D. | Posted 05.04.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Reproduction, Homosexuality, Anthropology, Gay Relationships, Greco-Roman, Sex, Homosexual, Gay Voices News
Gilles Herrada, Ph.D.

What basic fact about homosexuality do you, your parents, your local evangelical priest, and your science teacher most likely agree about? Try this one: Homosexuals don't reproduce. This verity is beyond obvious: Try as they may, two men or two women together cannot have babies.

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Friday Freak Out: BPA May Create An Even Bigger Hormonal Mess

Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.27.2013 | Green
Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa, Reproduction, Epigenetics, Infertility, Lynne-Peeples, Green News
Lynne Peeples

Welcome again to my blog, Toxic Tracks. Please send along any feedback or ideas for environmental health topics via email or Twitter. Among its devas...

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Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin's Legacy Among Doulas in L.A.

Antonia Blumberg | Posted 03.26.2013 | Parents
Read More: Birth, Reproduction, Women, Yoga, The Farm, Midwife, Pregnancy, Steve Gaskin, Midwifery, C-Section, Cesarian, Sexuality, Wellness, Shodhini, Prenatal, Acupuncture, Sex, Reproductive Health, Pediactrics, Documentary, Ina May Gaskin, Placenta, Birth Story, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Doula, Parents News
Antonia Blumberg

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives recounts the history of the natural birth movement in the United States. It is the story of a revolution, initiated in the least likely place imaginable.

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Is Human Longevity Due to Grandmothers or Older Fathers?

Rob Brooks | Posted 12.31.2012 | Science
Read More: Reproduction, Grandmother, Aging, Longevity, Natural Selection, Evolution, Lifespan, Grandparents, Grandfathers, Ageing, Science News
Rob Brooks

Why do humans tend to live such a long time? Our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, can last into their mid-forties in the wild. Yet somewhere in the last six million years, human lifespans have lengthened dramatically, so that living into our seventies is no big surprise.

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Scientists Get Stem Cells From WHAT?

Posted 10.16.2012 | Science
Read More: Reproduction, Video, Neuroscience, Human Brain, Biology, Stem Cells Cadavers, Stem Cells, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 10/16/2012 10:22 AM EDT on LiveScience Death will come for us all one day, but life will not ...

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Should Sex Selection of Embryos Be Regulated in the United States?

Jasmeet Sidhu | Posted 09.14.2012 | Science
Read More: Reproduction, Reproductive Technologies, Sex Selection, Infertility, Choosing the Sex of Your Baby, Reproductive Rights, Gender Selection, Fertility, Gender, Prenatal Sex Selection, Embryonic Sex Selection, Prenatal Gender Selection, Embryo Sex Selection, Embryo Gender Selection, Embryonic Gender Selection, Science News
Jasmeet Sidhu

Many expectant parents often joke about having a gender preference for their as yet unborn child: a boy, perhaps, to go to baseball games with dad, or a girl, to one day see her in a wedding dress. But what if those preferences could become a choice?

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The Truth About the 'Biological Urge'

Laura Carroll | Posted 10.10.2012 | Women
Read More: Laura Carroll, The Baby Matrix, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenthood, Bonnie-Kavoussi, Reproduction, Childfree, Childless, Video, Women News
Laura Carroll

When it comes to the "biological urge," it's time to shift our thinking to reflect what is real.

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'You Mean About the No Pants?'

Bethany Meyer | Posted 09.30.2012 | Parents
Read More: Howard Stern, Minivan, How Babies Are Made, Making Babies, Reproduction, Motherhood, Kids Say the Darndest Things, Parenting Humor, Mothers, Parents News
Bethany Meyer

Where do your kids ask their tough questions?

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Fertility Drugs May Affect Children's Stature, Study Suggests

Posted 07.17.2012 | Science
Read More: Reproduction, Video, Tall, Fertility Drugs, In Vitro Fertilization, Children, Kids, Fetus, Height, Health, Short, Pregnancy, Mothers, Parents, Science News

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 07/16/2012 09:05 AM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily Children conceived through use of fe...

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Sexy Spider Loses Penis To Gain Big Advantage

Posted 06.13.2012 | Science
Read More: Animal Sex, Reproduction, Video, Biology, Sex, Mating, Animal Behavior, Spiders, Sex Organs, Detachable Penis, Spider Penis, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 06/12/2012 07:17 PM EDT on LiveScience After leaving its detachable penis to finish inse...

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'I Don't Want To Have Children'

Salon | Posted 06.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Motherhood, Reproduction, Women Biological Clock, Biological Clock, Starting a Family, Children, Mothers, Family, Women News

"I was hoping for something more than a baby receptacle." That's what one of my 32-year-old male friends said to explain why he was dating a woman sev...

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I Never Thought I Wanted A Baby -- Until...

Salon | Posted 04.23.2012 | Women
Read More: Pregnancy, Motherhood, Reproduction, Reproductive Clock, Becoming a Mother, Having a Baby, Baby, Women News

It started with a TV commercial. I can't remember what was being advertised. All I know is that it showed a father holding a newborn baby, and I start...

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In Defense of My Body, Health & Choices

Voto Latino | Posted 06.12.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Abortion, Pro-Choice, Reproduction, Women's Rights, Latino Voices News
Voto Latino

Not one question was answered. We were vocal and they were stunned silent. Mission accomplished.

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What I Think About When I Think About Sex

Rob Brooks | Posted 06.03.2012 | Science
Read More: Reproduction, Evolution, Genetics, Genes, Evolutionary Biology, Biology, Sex, Mating, Science News
Rob Brooks

It takes something as profound as love to trick us into putting aside our conflicting interests and mistrust long enough to mate, and sometimes even to raise a family together.

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The Important Work of Planned Parenthood

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 04.14.2012 | Women
Read More: Reproduction, Susan G Komen, Women's Rights, Breast Cancer Screenings, The Huffington Post, Breast Cancer, Funding, Recording Artists, Komen for the Cure, Politics, Minute Appointments, Entire Organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, Touring, Performing, Abortion, Susan G Komen for the Cure, Gynecological Exams, Rape, Bullying, Affordable Care, Daughters, Planned Parenthood Locations, Entertainment Companies, Planned Parenthood, Mothers, Health and Wellness, Ups, Traveling, Fellow Singers, Komen, Gynecological Services, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Check Ups, Cecile Richards, Cure Foundation, Foundations, Women News
Jennifer Hamady

Villainizing the entire organization is a mistake. It ignores, and dismisses, the services Planned Parenthood provides that we all -- regardless of our political views -- can agree are important.

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The Context of Sex

Carin Bondar | Posted 03.07.2012 | Science
Read More: Reproduction, Genetics, Sex, Science News
Carin Bondar

We're not the only girls in the animal kingdom who fall for the wrong guys, strategize about finding 'Mr. Right' and occasionally fend off the advances of unwelcome suitors. Like many other ladies, from beetles to chickens to dolphins, we're generally the 'choosy' sex.

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Cara Santa Maria

Is Sex For Pleasure Uniquely Human?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.13.2012 | Home
Read More: Reproduction, Bonobos, Dolphins, Talk Nerdy to Me, Human Sexuality, Sex for Pleasure, Science, Masturbation, Home News

You've probably heard the rumors that dolphins are the only other mammals that have sexual intercourse for pleasure. It appears as though this is almost true, depending again on how one defines sex for pleasure.

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Catherine Pearson

Is Male Birth Control Coming? The Gates Foundation Thinks

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.28.2011 | Women
Read More: Reproduction, Male Contraception, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Video, Future of Contraception Initiative, Male Birth Control Pill, Pill for Men, Gates Birth Control, Male Birth Control, Reproductive Health, Birth Control, Bill Gates, Birth Control for Men, Gates Foundation, Women News

When some of the most innovative thinkers in contraception research meet to discuss the future of birth control this weekend, they won't just be discu...

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7 Billion And Counting: Challenges as World Population Hits Milestone

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 12.17.2011 | World
Read More: Population, World Population, Reproduction, Family Planning, Poverty, Children, Overpopulation, Water, Uganda, U.N. Population Fund, World News

She's a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and t...

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Pop Music Is Human Nature

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 11.14.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Reproduction, Prevalent Themes, Pop Songs, Sex Appeal, Repetitiveness, Billboard Top Ten, Country Music Lyrics, Country, Sex Act, Pop Music, Sexual Relationships, Adele, Evolutionary Psychology, R & B, Evolution, Emotional Expressiveness, Country and Western, Pop, Short-Term Mating Strategies, Britney Spears, Lyrics, Pop Music Junkie, Billboard Charts, Drizzy Drake, Nicki Minaj, Ke$Ha, Drake, Dawn Hobbs, Gordon Gallup, Front-Page News Stories, Romance Novels, Entertainment News
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

I've got a proud confession to make: I'm a pop music junkie. Drizzy Drake, Britney, Adele, Nicki, Ke$ha, you name it. I love it. But I've got to admit...

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Sperm Donor Fathers 150 Kids, System Under Spotlight

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 11.06.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Reproduction, Sperm Donors, Video, Sperm Donor, Incest, Reproductive Rights, Health, Government Regulation, Reproductive Health, Sperm Donor Regulation, Healthy Living News

Concerns are being raised about the lack of regulation of sperm donors in the United States, after one anonymous man was found to have fathered 150 ch...

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The Hypocrisy of Being Green and Making Babies

Toni Nagy | Posted 07.24.2011 | Green
Read More: Organic Food, Children, Mothering, Environment, Green, Raising Children, Environmentalism, Parenting, Green Living, Organic, Reproduction, Overpopulation, Green News
Toni Nagy

I find myself second-guessing every environmental decision since I produced this little being of natural destruction.

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California's Flammability Standard Puts Children at Risk

Sarah Janssen | Posted 06.17.2011 | Home
Read More: Hormone Disrupters, Reproduction, Pbdes, Chemical Policy, Tsca, Infertility, Health, Endocrine Disrupters, Home News
Sarah Janssen

A study published this week in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives is further evidence that California children are the most highly exposed...

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I Am Creative

Alanna Zabel | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Alanna Zabel, Creativity, Reproduction, Yoga, Health, Mantra, Meditation, Stretching Exercises, Sexuality, Healthy Living News
Alanna Zabel

Mantra: I Am Creative, Posture/Exercise: The Butterfly Hip Opener Pose

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International Surrogate Pregnancy Industry On The Rise

The Wall Street Journal | TAMARA AUDI and ARLENE CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Planet Hospital, Reproduction, Sperm Donor, Pregnancy, Reproductive Health, Egg Donor, Planethospital, Rupak, Global Baby, Surrogate Pregnancy, Home News

In a hospital room on the Greek island of Crete with views of a sapphire sea lapping at ancient fortress walls, a Bulgarian woman plans to deliver a b...

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