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With the Conference on HIV and AIDS currently being hosted in Mexico, the international aid community is taking advantage of the situation to address a big question on everyone's mind: Why are only 10% of funds dedicated to AIDS prevention accounted for?

While this decision is usually left up to parents, the motives for circumcision vary from limiting the risk of infection and STDs to simply fitting into a cultural norm. Of course there are some drawbacks to getting ‘snipped’, mainly a loss of sexual stimulation, and of course, some serious soreness and pain (why do you think they do this to us when we’re babies?).

This is helpful for any marketing employee set with the task of getting their press release picked up by the mainstream media: use tantalizing keywords like "sex", "Green", and "Fat" in the title. The presumed effect is to get your article not only picked up by the press, but also to get it noticed by the search engines.

Henri Pachard, legendary porn director, is essentially dying of cancer and his wife is struggling to make ends meet while she cares for him in his decline. Fortunately, porn stars like Amber Lynn and Ron Jeremy are making a push to produce a charity film to raise money for his cause under the title "That's What Friends are For."

Researchers in Hawaii have discovered an unsettling fact about HPV, aka genital warts, and where it is spreading in many of the country's women. Despite a well documented history of the problems associated with HPV infecting women's vaginas causing cervical cancer, it appears that they are equally likely to get infected in their anus. Gross.

A 45 year old man who contracted a debilitating form of herpes from unprotected sex, has successfully convinced a British Columbian court of appeals that his ailment should be covered by the national health insurance. His case is very severe, as he has become paralyzed from the waist down, and the suit will undoubtedly raise the cost of insurance for the state.

HPV is the most commonly acquired sexually transmitted disease amongst young girls, and is also the leading cause of cervical cancer among women.

There's a new vaccine on the block my Merk that promises to rid girls of HPV- an STD that commonly leads to cervical cancer. Truth is, giving them this vaccine does not completely protect them, and should not be viewed as a license to have unprotected sex.

New research indicates that women who endure greater amounts of stress are more likely to contract cervical cancer.

New reports that link human papilloma virus (HPV) to certain strains of throat cancer suggest that unprotected oral sex may be more dangerous that previously thought.