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Can women benefit from Viagra?
New York Times, Published on 21/06/2024
» It is a question that sexual medicine researchers have puzzled over since at least the late 1990s, when the Food and Drug Administration approved sildenafil, known as Viagra, for men.
Scientists have overlooked the snake clitoris, until now
By Alex Fox of the New York Times, Published on 14/12/2022
» NEW YORK: You’ve probably seen a snake’s forked tongue, but it’s not the slithering animal’s only forked body part. Male snakes sport forked genitals called hemipenes that look a bit like pink cactuses and often have spines to match.
Researchers identify brain region linked to clitoral stimulation
AFP, Published on 21/12/2021
» WASHINGTON: A new scientific study has identified the brain region linked to genital touch in women, and found that it was more developed in volunteers who reported having more sex.
Ultra-modern Singapore's dark secret: female genital mutilation
AFP, Published on 06/08/2021
» SINGAPORE - Saza Faradilla was 22 when she discovered her genitals had been cut when she was a baby, part of a quietly persistent traditional practice among Singapore's minority Muslim community.
Women hail victory as Sudan moves to ban genital cutting
AFP, Published on 06/05/2020
» KHARTOUM: Hakam Ibrahim was seven when, like most Sudanese girls, she became a victim of female genital mutilation -- an age-old practice decried as horrific that the post-revolution government is now banning.
Sierra Leone's secret societies mark bodies and minds
AFP, Published on 04/08/2019
» FREETOWN - Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse T-shirt, her knees hugged to her chest, eight-year-old Musu Kamara sits in a corrugated shack in Sierra Leone's capital waiting for her initiation into a secret society.
Swiss women rise up for equal pay
AFP, Published on 14/06/2019
» GENEVA - Statues draped in purple in Neuchatel, blocked traffic in Lausanne and a massive clenched fist feminist symbol projected onto a skyscraper in Basel: women across Switzerland went on strike Friday for equal pay.
Study finds 'significant decline' in genital mutilation rates in girls
AFP, Published on 07/11/2018
» PARIS - Rates of female genital mutilation among girls under 14 have fallen sharply in most regions of Africa over three decades, according to ground-breaking analysis cautiously welcomed by aid groups.