Battlefield Scars Often Carry Over To Bedroom, Troops Find

Wounds and mental disabilities of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq can mess up their sex lives too, health experts said Wednesday. But those wounds often go untreated because the topic is taboo and has gone unstudied.
Whatever the reason, failed sexual intimacy can contribute to higher suicide and divorce rates among returning troops, specialists told [...]

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Battlefield Scars Often Carry Over To Bedroom, Troops Find

Wounds and mental disabilities of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq can mess up their sex lives too, health experts said Wednesday. But those wounds often go untreated because the topic is taboo and has gone unstudied.
Whatever the reason, failed sexual intimacy can contribute to higher suicide and divorce rates among returning troops, specialists told [...]

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Study looks at sexual urinary side effects of prostate cancer care

ATLANTA — One of the first large quality-of-life studies on today’s prostate cancer treatments suggests that for some men, it’s a matter of picking your poison and facing potential sexual, urinary or other problems.
Of the choices studied — surgery, standard radiation, hormone therapy or radioactive seeds — the seeds seemed to carry a lower risk [...]

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Urinary symptoms often affect women’s sex life

Women with lower urinary tract symptoms, or LUTS, are more likely to have sexual problems than women without LUTS,Health Topics researchers reported here at the annual meeting of the European Association of Urology.
Dr. Con Kelleher, at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital Trusts in London, and colleagues examined the impact of LUTS on women’s sexual functioning [...]

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The little pill that launched a second sexual revolution

Ten years ago this month, erectile dysfunction — a once-whispered-about disorder — did more than just come out of the closet. ED, as it’s now known, began strutting across America’s television screens.Bob Dole started talking. Then the grandfatherly former senator stepped aside and NASCAR drivers took over. Then a middle-aged garage band soon crooned, “Viva [...]

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