People have sex for all kinds of reasons: the biologic drive to procreate, to foster a sense of intimacy or for simple physical pleasure.
"Ouch! This hurts. Why me?"Imagine having to prick your finger multiple times a day to maintain a life without health complications.
The term penis envy, coined by the father of modern psychology Sigmund Freud, may seem self-explanatory, but, often people are unaware of its full meaning. First-year College student Becca Jackson, for example, said when she heard the term, she thought it had to do solely with men. "I think it has to do with guys and feeling adequate with respect to their own penises and to other guys," Jackson said. In reality, however, penis envy is a theory that Czech Austrian psychologist Freud developed about both genders in the modern world.
Resistance is a word that gets tossed around frequently in medical contexts. It refers to a wide variety of bacteria, viruses and fungi that take pleasure in making us uniquely ill and leaving us little recourse to attack them.
Growing up has its benefits. As we move past our teenage years, we gain autonomy, confidence and liberation from the throes of unsightly orthodontics and parentally induced embarrassment.
As spring has already sprung, so too have many of the pollen particles that cause students and faculty alike to fall plague to the itchy, scratchy uncomfortable aspects of seasonal allergies. "I totally have allergies," second-year College student Molly McDonald said.
This is my first column of spring. When I hear spring, my mind is already skipping ahead to summer.
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" frightened and fascinated a vast number of readers with the science-fiction prospect of one person exhibiting radically different personalities.
A disturbing trend in sexual illness is the overwhelming rise in cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea since 2000, especially in people under 25.
Dear Emily, I sweat a lot. I mean, a lot. It's ruining my clothes and killing my social life! What can I do? -P.U. Excessive sweating, also known as hyperhidrosis, is a common problem that affects an estimated 1 percent of the population (or more, considering most people probably sweat in silence). Will Ferrell, Old Spice's newest spokesman, would have you believe "if you don't smell good, you'll probably never get the chance to spoon or European-style kiss a woman." There is hope yet, however. Back in the old days (the old, old days, you children of the '90s) sweating was a ritualistic, even bonding event and a very important part of certain cultures.
You left your class mid-lecture to run to the bathroom, but once you got there, you couldn't go. You have mysterious back pains and you haven't done heavy lifting.
It's not unusual for college students to consider caffeine a separate food group. Between living with a dorm full of our best friends, the constant mental stimulation offered by 24-hour cable TV and high-speed Internet, and poor time management skills that lead to desperate all-nighters, it's probably surprising that we get as much sleep as we do.
Masturbation is not a topic people commonly talk about. This taboo activity, however, is something researchers have found to be commonly practiced throughout all age groups and in both sexes. Self-servicing over the centuries "Masturbation has been the subject of intrigue and criticism for millennia," said Jennifer Bass, communications director at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, noting the behavior has long been criticized and repressed. "There has been a stigma about masturbation as long as we've been writing materials ... from writings in the Bible to writings in the early and late 19th century," Bass said.
Every year we hear about the coming of the flu like we're anticipating the next bubonic plague and might need to consider walling off the city from infected outsiders.
An increasing number of women are getting involved in fitness trends that revolutionize traditional gym routines.
Dear Emily, One of my fraternity brothers told me that wearing briefs can make me sterile. Is my choice of underwear putting my manhood in jeopardy?
Dear Emily, My sorority is going to Cancun for Spring Break. I'm totally pale, so I was thinking about hitting the tanning salon first for a base tan so I don't burn in Mexico.
For some people, the idea of losing their virginity brings up fond, sad or even humorous memories.
There is no cure for the common cold. That is all I could think about in my discussion today, as three girls took turns coughing their lungs out at different intervals.
Everyone learned in sex ed class that "if you have sex, you will get chlamydia and you will die" right before the teacher passed around the condoms.
