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A study reveals that bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition affecting nearly a third of women worldwide and causing infertility, premature births and newborn deaths, is in fact a sexually transmitted infection (STI), paving the way for a revolution in how it is treated. The standard practice of treating BV as an imbalance (disruption) to the vaginal microbiome means that more than 50% of women get it back within three months after the standard week-long treatment of an oral antibiotic. In their trial of 164 couples with BV in monogamous relationships, they found that treating BV as an STI, with both...

Patients prescribed drugs for movement disorders - including restless leg syndrome (RLS) - say doctors did not warn them about serious side effects that led them to seek out risky sexual behaviour. Twenty women have told the BBC that the drugs - given to them for RLS, which causes an irresistible urge to move - ruined their lives. A report by drugs firm GSK - seen by the BBC - shows it learned in 2003 of a link between the medicines, known as dopamine agonist drugs, and what it described as "deviant" sexual behaviour. While there is no explicit reference...

Ione Skye claims Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis got her pregnant — and paid for her abortion — when she was 17 years old. The actress made the shocking revelation in her new memoir, “Say Everything,” claiming they made the painful decision together due to her young age and the rocker’s heroin addiction. Skye was just 16 years old when she started dating Kiedis, who was 24 when they struck up a romance. “I was the type of girl who’d wanted a baby since I was a baby, who used to fantasize about finding a swaddled infant on...

A new study published in PLOS One found that men and women misjudge what the opposite sex finds attractive. A research team in the United Kingdom asked 144 people — with an average age of 22 — to adjust a 3D model of a man’s or a woman’s face to match their appearance to find out what they believed the other gender finds the most attractive for both short- and long-term relationships. Sharp, bold features like chiseled jawlines are often described as more masculine, while soft, delicate features like full lips are characterized as more feminine — and everyone’s rushing...

Any time I venture into public, I’m increasingly convinced more people should have been bullied as kids (of the swirlie variety, not the “I wish you were dead” kind). Behind every ill-adjusted adult who thinks “ask me about my pronouns” buttons are rad or that perpetually living in his mom’s basement is normal is a dork who didn’t get shoved into enough lockers for weird behavior. Public shaming would go a long way in phasing out all kinds of social ills. People should be made to feel stupid for masking outdoors or chomping popcorn with their mouths open during quiet...

Young liberal women are especially prone nowadays to reporting poor mental health. This was the discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago pouring over Pew data in the spring of 2020. Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the last decade-and-a-half, and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives. Is this ideological gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present? Yes, new evidence from 2024 American Family Survey indicates it is. Young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with life than their...

"My Standards Are Higher As a Single Mother," Woman Says Men Should Do More For Her and Her Son

A Florida woman was caught on camera chucking a commemorative “first date” brick through her ex-husband’s window late last month – even as she repeatedly denied carrying out the vengeful act, according to police. Sabrina Coyne, 34, was arrested around 11 p.m. on Jan. 24 when Lee County Sheriff deputies confronted her in front of her ex’s Bonita Springs home, according to footage released by authorities. When law enforcement first reached the scene, one deputy asked Coyne, who was wearing a short dress and high heels, why she was banging on the front door. ... She claimed she lived at...

Melbourne singleton Maddy Carty has doubled down on her controversial take that men should have to pay a first date deposit to put a stop to last minute cancellations on dating apps. 'If someone cancels a date within 24 hours, you should be able to charge a cancellation fee,' the 30-year-old said in a recent episode of her Mads World podcast. However, the proposal to pre-charge men $100 for a promised date resulted in swift backlash, with dozens of irate gents slamming the TikToker for her take on modern dating.

Joe Rogan. Elon Musk. Representatives of bro culture are on the ascent, bringing with them an army of disaffected young men. But where did they come from? Many argue that a generation of men are resentful because they have fallen behind women in work and school. I believe this shift would not have been so destabilizing were it not for the fact that our society still has one glass-slippered foot in the world of Cinderella.Hundreds of years after the Brothers Grimm published their version of that classic rags-to-riches story, our cultural narratives still reflect the idea that a woman’s status...

Brooke Shields considered former President George H.W. Bush such a close "confidant" that she would ask him just about anything. Shields, 59, admitted that she considered the late politician her substitute grandfather during an event to support the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's New York Celebration of Reading event at the Lotos Club. The actress and author, who will soon publish her new book, "Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old," even had a nickname for the 41st president of the United States. "I call him Papa Bush. I was dating somebody [whose father] was an ambassador in...

In recent years, the dynamics of dating have shifted dramatically, leaving many to wonder about the reasons men don’t want to date. Recent findings from the Pew Research Center indicate that 63% of men under 30 in the U.S. are opting to stay single, a notable increase from 51% in 2019, citing various personal and societal reasons. This statistic reflects a growing trend of male dating reluctance, prompting a deeper understanding into the thread of modern relationships.

This Fiery "Arcane" Romance Illuminates Why so Many People Won't Date or Befriend Trump Supporters

Susan Guthrie first noticed attacks on no-fault divorce gaining traction among conservative commentators in spring of 2023, recalling when right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder “went into a rage” over the Texas no-fault divorce law that allowed his wife to leave him against his wishes. Since then, Guthrie, a family law and mediation attorney who hosts the popular “Divorce and Beyond” podcast, has heard growing attacks on no-fault divorce from conservatives. She focused on the issue in her Monday episode — just before the simmering fears among some women exploded into view on Election Day. In the hours after former president Donald...

Some leftist women are inexplicably shaving their heads in protest of President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory. These distraught women, sharing their hysterical videos to social media, claim to be shaving their heads in protest the “patriarchy,” despite the fact that millions of American women voted for Trump. In one video, a woman in a purple shirt states that she is “giving up on America,” making the statement while shaving the side of her head. She concludes during her rant that basic beauty standards should be completely forgotten, because that is what the “patriarchy” wants.

Once, feminism was about being strong and invincible; now, though, it’s about being a screaming, crying, vindictive, emotional mess. We’ve been watching leftist women decompensate for eight years now. After all, there’s the endlessly lovely meme of the screaming woman in green on the day of Trump’s inauguration, along with all the ridiculous women parading around in pink “pussy” hats. The George Floyd riots gave us a whole new gallery of crazed women as they raged at black police officers, decrying those men’s racism. But we’ve never before had a parade of crazy like the one that’s swept social media...

Leave it to the folks in Las Vegas to add some entertainment to the entire election day process. They show up for all the big events with promises of a good time and free lap dances for those who qualify. What better way to sit back and relax after performing your civic duty than by watching the electoral map drama unfold at a strip club? I can't think of any. Those who voted get a free lap dance after all.

Billionaire mogul Tyle Perry, who has long publicly professed to be a Christian, was captured on the weekend stuffing money into a twerking stripper’s underwear, according to several videos that have been posted online (but we will not be sharing here.) Tyler was attending a massive party thrown by musician Usher that saw several strippers twerking and dancing on stage and poles, directly in front of him, wearing see-through undergarments. The money that Tyler was seen putting into the stripper’s clothingwas “Usherbucks,” an artificial money created by Usher that he occasionally hands out for people to play with. It is...

A Trump supporter sabotaged a Manhattan dating event for Democrats by buying a bunch of tickets, then no-showing — leaving love-seeking lefties out of luck. The facilitator of Date a Dem Speed Dating got a phone call from a blocked number shortly before the event — held at The Rose on West 25th Street in Chelsea on Sept. 18, the same day as Trump’s rally on Long Island — was set to begin. “The gist of what was said by this individual was ‘F your snowflake event, we’re not coming, we’re all at the Trump rally,'” organizer Amber Soletti of...

Since 2016, young American women have become significantly more liberal due to emotional responses to gender-related events that are largely superficial and detrimental. Last week, The New York Times featured an article titled: “How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal.” According to every poll, since 2016, there has been an unprecedented political/social gender gap between young American women and men. Here is how the Times reported it: “In 2001, young men and women had similar political ideologies. … Then, around 2016, something shifted, a new analysis shows. Women ages 18 to 29 became significantly more liberal than...