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  • Sarah Riley

Sperm can be pretty hardy when they're in hospitable environments, like the reproductive track of someone with a vagina. They can survive for days in there. However, in an inhospitable environment (on towels, clothing, sheets, the wall, bathtub, etc.), they don't last very long at all. In those...

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  • Heather Corinna

Honestly, people need some from of preventative reproductive health care. Can you live without it? Some people can, but that is a gamble, and if you look at people in nations without any, you can get an idea for how that really just isn't often healthy. Too, once you become sexually active it is...

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  • Heather Corinna

Your boyfriend needs to understand and accept that it's very unlikely he never pre-ejaculates if he does fully ejaculate, too. In other words, if, at his age, he's reached the stage of puberty where he can ejaculate, then he also does pre-ejaculate. Pre-ejaculate is how the penis "prepares" itself...

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  • Heather Corinna

The notion that intercourse can somehow change the menstrual cycle -- unless a woman becomes pregnant or contracts certain infections -- doesn't have any factual cause or real basis. The menstrual cycle is a whole cycle, which occurs due to hormonal changes that intercourse, all by itself, can't...

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  • Heather Corinna

I can tell you with no reservations that masturbation did not and cannot: • Cause hair loss • Cause any sort of stammering or other speech impairments • Have any effect whatsoever on your fertility Really, it won't. It can't. If it could, more than 95% of the population would be bald, infertile and...

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  • Heather Corinna

If we pay attention to our whole bodies every day, what we'll usually notice is that nothing is ever static. In other words, one day running a couple miles may be relatively easy for us, while the next day, we might get winded with half that, or feel like we're dragging. One day our skin is clear...