• Monday, February 22, 2010 - 8:20am By Dr Martha Lee
    For the first time, a test dubbed the “egg timer” will measure a woman's egg reserve and allow women for the first time to know how fast their biological clock is ticking. Set to revolutionise the way women think about their...
  • Monday, January 11, 2010 - 8:17pm By Dr Martha Lee
    In 2020, the number of unmarried males in China will reach 24 million, and more unusual marriages such as “intergenerational marriages” and “older female and younger male marriages” may occur, according to the book ‘...
  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 11:26am By Margaret Wade
    It might have taken humans a while to figure out the male's contribution to procreation, but the science of it took even longer. Yet even before the Western scientific world had determined sperm's part in the happy event, Eastern cultures had...
  • Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 9:26am By Matthew Lawrence
    In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor god, protector of livestock, fruits, gardens, and male genitalia.  He is mostly known for his enormous, permanently-erect penis, and his name gives us the English word priapism, the condition where...
  • Monday, August 31, 2009 - 10:57am By Tim McElreavy
    There are rewards programs for just about everything, ranging from free flights for frequent fliers to special savings for supermarket shoppers. Now some Caribbean resorts are offering conception credits for couples who conceive while on vacation....
  • Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 2:21pm By Jessica O'Reilly
    The National Post reports that it may take more than charm, good looks and alcohol to win female affection. In Vannes, France, 200 single women in nightclubs were approached by handsome men and asked to dance to slow, sexy songs. Both those who...
  • Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 11:09am By Margaret Wade
    Soft penises are delightful in many ways, and they have their uses even for those of us who nearly always experience them firsthand in their firmer state. But the fact of the matter is that, through all the many, many centuries of phallus worship,...
  • Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 3:28pm By Margaret Wade
    Mary Magdalene, one of the biggest enigmas of Christianity, is celebrated with a feast day on July 22nd. In a religion with limited roles for women – virgin, whore, reformed whore (usually worded “penitent sinner”), wife, mother,...
  • Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 8:47am By Tim McElreavy
    Scientists at Hadassa hospital in Jersualem have found that Israeli men are 40% less fertile than they were a decade ago. By comparing sperm samples deposited at sperm bank between 2004 and 2008 with samples from deposits made in the late 1990s, the...
  • Friday, May 8, 2009 - 10:49am By Margaret Wade
    Happy Mother's Day! May is the month of the mother —and the Mother Goddess. It is named for Maia, the Virgin Goddess of Spring, and celebrated with fertility rites and ceremonies honoring mothers. So, in honor of our mothers and the Great Mother,...
  • Monday, March 2, 2009 - 6:00pm By Margaret Wade
    The connection between sexuality and spirituality is so strong and so ancient that the first “coin” ever minted granted access to sacred sex rites. The shekel in ancient Sumeria represented a bushel of wheat donated to the Temple of...