Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In ‘Berlin Patient’.
Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has [...]

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This is why I don’t trust stories about new findings in sex or relationships, no matter how fun the conclusion might be. Sometimes even reading the abstract of the actual study, and preferably the whole study paper, does not ease my suspicions. Not that my intuition or feelings constitute evidence against the accuracy of a [...]

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bodyLab is researching attraction and has a couple of studies you can participate in. One study collects information about faces and the other collects information about bodies. In both cases, you rate an avatar on a scale of “less attractive than average” up to “more attractive than average.” The lowest scoring faces and body shapes [...]

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I hate shopping. I hate being in thrift stores. I can’t deal with coupons, limited offers, or the hell of special sale events where people queue up and knock the doors down at dawn.
But according to a University of Westminster study, I must be doing it wrong.
Shopping for Sexual Arousal
A recent study at the University [...]

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