Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and anxious days waiting for your period to start could be avoided if you learned the simple signs. Read about it here.
Women and men, it seems, are in the same boat on the sea of fertility. As we age, the ride to parenthood gets rockier. We most often talk about women’s bodies being ticking time bombs, but just as a woman’s “fecundity and fertility starts to decline precipitously after 32, a man’s semen quality and fertility also ...
Taking hormonal contraceptives can make sex less pleasurable according to new research. This can be with lowered libido, less lubrication, and even reduced orgasm. In my experience, it doesn’t just make sex less pleasurable it can make life less pleasurable! I was on the combined pill ten years ago for about a year and I ...
Thin women have a harder time conceiving than overweight women, according to a new study. A healthy woman has a one in two chance of having a baby, and an overweight woman has only slightly lower chances. Underweight women, however, only have a one in three chance. Being too skinny is bad for you. Why ...
Doctors are discussing whether fat women deserve to have babies. Specifically, they are deciding whether obese patients should have access to fertility treatments. “Get off your 50 pounds or so and exercise and then see where your fertility is at,” said Beverly Hanck, executive director of the Infertility Awareness Association of Canada. Obese women, even if ...
Can’t get your man to commit? Why not get pregnant accidentally on purpose?! Frankly, I am sick to death of the claim that women get pregnant accidentally on purpose in order to snare a man who is unwilling to commit. Sure, there might be a few psychotic women who have done this, but by and ...
The Male Pill is apparently on its way. Yes, soon men will be able to take care of their contraceptive needs in a convenient tablet to be crumbled daily over their Cheerios, and need never bother with the difficulty, embarrassment and expense of condoms ever again. Women will be protected from the risk of unwanted ...
Do you worry that you might get pregnant even if he doesn’t ejaculate inside of you? Pre-cum might contain sperm, but this chance is incredibly small (especially if he has urinated since his last ejaculation) and usually it won’t happen. But, we can’t always predict it and it is a possibility, so if you are ...
Susi Henson, 33, just wants to have a baby of her own. This could be near impossible, though, due to polycystic ovarian syndrome that has formed cycts on her ovaries, not allowing her to conceive naturally without IVF treatment. So, she and her husband, 40, applied for the miracle treatment and waited six months for ...
For overweight women who can’t get pregnant, weight loss surgery might be an option to increase their chances. The link between weight and fertility is still “meager” at this point, with more studies needed to give women definite answers, but a growing number of women are having bariatric surgery if they can’t lose weight by ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
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A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
