BACKGROUND HIV continues to impact African American women at alarming rates. Yet, few researchers have examined the relationship factors promoting unprotected sex within African American communities, especially instances in which women are aware that their male partners are engaging in high risk behaviors. This qualitative study explored the sexual behaviors, relationship characteristics, and H...

For decades, investigators have sought to explain the increasing rates of suicide among adolescents and to identify remediable predisposing factors. Despite substantial progress, the possibility has been raised that existing research has overlooked important clues to the problem. Specifically, the contribution of bisexual and homosexual youth to suicide deaths has been a matter of recent intere...

BACKGROUND Understanding the mode and mechanisms of the evolution of the angiosperm flower is a long-standing and central problem of evolutionary biology and botany. It has essentially remained unsolved, however. In contrast, considerable progress has recently been made in our understanding of the genetic basis of flower development in some extant model species. The knowledge that accumulated t...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated associations between sexual orientation and measures of suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury in Australian adults. Previous studies of sexual orientation and suicidality have been limited by unclear conceptualisations of suicidal intent, failure to differentiate between homosexuality and bisexuality, inattention to gender differences and use of convenience...

The most common way animals reproduce is bisexuality, namely through the mixis of male and female gametes. Bisexual reproduction relies on the Mendelian mechanism, although several additional modes also occur. In turn, the Mendelian inheritance of genetic variability stands on the meiotic process, which entrains recombination and chromosome reshuffling within the frame of a balanced segregation...

OBJECTIVE To establish the psychosexual outcome of gender-dysphoric children at 16 years or older and to examine childhood characteristics related to psychosexual outcome. METHOD We studied 77 children who had been referred in childhood to our clinic because of gender dysphoria (59 boys, 18 girls; mean age 8.4 years, age range 5-12 years). In childhood, we measured the children's cross-gender...

The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to compare sociodemographic and risk behavior characteristics between black men who have sex with both men and women (MSMW) and those who have sex with men only (MSMO) and assess factors associated with having any unprotected vaginal and/or anal intercourse (UVAI) with women in the last 3 months. Data from 326 black men who reported recent unpro...

AbstractThis article offers a different interpretation of Leviticus 18:22, which has traditionally been seen as scripture that forbids homosexuality. The Bible outright condemns various sexual orientations such homosexuality, bisexuality, and bestiality; result, the Old Testament portrays heterosexuality proper identity. general reading texts frequently devolves into pros contras but leaves lit...