Sexual Activity

Low libido can not only ruin a women's sex life but could also cause her to miss out on some key health benefits. Dr. Valerie Omicioli, a certified menopause practitioner and clinical assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said that low sexual desire is something that women should not ignore. What are some of the common causes of low libido in women? The word libido refers not only to the desire for sex, but also sexual thoughts, fantasies, responsiveness and willingness to engage in sexual activity.

Low libido can not only ruin a women's sex life but could also cause her to miss out on some key health benefits. Dr. Valerie Omicioli, a certified menopause practitioner and clinical assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said that low sexual desire is something that women should not ignore. What are some of the common causes of low libido in women? The word libido refers not only to the desire for sex, but also sexual thoughts, fantasies, responsiveness and willingness to engage in sexual activity.

Glenn McCown is a Baltimore eighth-grader who is keenly aware of the pressure on students his age to have sex."Your friends pump you up to lose what you have," said McCown, a student at Southeast Middle School. "They say, 'Go ahead, it doesn't hurt.' Especially if you're a virgin."Then, when you do lose it, you realize you should have kept it."He is convinced that, at his stage in life, "the best sex is no sex."That view got some powerful support yesterday from a pair of high school students who spoke to McCown's health class about teen-age sexuality and the value of abstinence.

Annapolis police arrested seven people last week in a special operation to target suspects soliciting prostitutes, police said Monday. Police had received numerous complaints about prostitution activity in the area of the 200 block of West St. Nearby residents told police they often see suspects solicit prostitutes on West Street near Southgate and Monticello avenues and drive to nearby residential streets to park and conduct sexual activity, Det....

Q: I think my daughter may be having sex even though she says she's not. If I take her for a gynecological exam, can the doctor tell me if she's still a virgin?A: It would be very difficult for any physician to answer your question based on a physical exam. Presumably, you are wondering whether her hymen is intact as a sign of virginity. However, there is considerable variation in the anatomy of the hymen during adolescence, making it an unreliable indicator of virginity.Your question raises important points about your relationship with your daughter.

ATLANTA -- The sexual revolution, thought dead in the age of AIDS, is apparently alive and thriving among a new generation of teen-age girls.While the fear of AIDS has led to a decline in promiscuity among women over age 20, a study released yesterday found that more girls than ever before are having premarital sex in their mid- to late teens."

Teens who have sexually active friends face a significantly higher risk of smoking, drinking and using drugs than do other youths, according to an annual Columbia University teen substance-abuse survey released yesterday. The survey found that youths 12 to 17 years old who said half or more of their friends were sexually active were found to be 31 times as likely to get drunk, 22 times as likely to try marijuana and more than five times as likely to smoke cigarettes. Advocates for liberalizing U.S. drug laws accused the writers of the report - which showed no causal connection between sexual activity and drug or alcohol use - of sensationalizing typical teenage behavior to make a stronger case against the use of marijuana and other drugs.

MOSCOW -- Fueled by a convergence of surging drug abuse and increased sexual activity, Russia stands on the precipice of an AIDS epidemic every bit as explosive as the one that swept through Europe and the United States 15 years ago.The nation's leading AIDS experts, fully aware after the fall of communism that an open society would bring a rising risk of all sexually transmitted diseases, have long forecast that the number of reported AIDS cases would climb.Although...

LOS ANGELES -- A free condom program at a Los Angeles County high school has increased sexual safety without any corresponding increase in sexual activity, according to a study being reported today by researchers at the RAND Corp.The percentage of sexually experienced males using a condom each time they had intercourse rose by a third, from 37 percent to 50 percent, at the unnamed high school, according to a report in the journal Family Planning Perspectives.But, rebutting the fears of condom distribution critics, the study found that the number of males and females who had ever had sex remained constant at 55 percent and 46 percent, respectively.

Police arrested three men on charges of indecent exposure Wednesday in Queenstown Park, officials said.Officer Robert Creech had gone to the park in the 600 block of Queenstown Road wearing civilian clothes. About 12:20 p.m., while walking in the woods, he saw a man engaged in a sexual activity, police said. Officer Creech identified himself and arrested the man.Later, Officer Creech arrested two other men engaging in a sexual activity in the woods near the back of the park, police said.Robert Glenn Holman, 51, of the 1400 block of Columbia Beach Road in Shadyside, Albert Timothy Finley, 45, of the 5200 block of Caroline Circle in Waldorf and Warren Vincent Simering, 37, of the 5500 block of Ashbourne Road in Arbutus were charged with indecent exposure.

Larry W. Warner Jr., of Joppa, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in a federal prison, followed by supervised release for life, for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. In Baltimore Federal District Court, Judge Benson E. Legg also ordered that upon his release from prison Warner must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, whose office prosecuted Warner.

I have to disagree as both a physician and father with Dr. Margaret Moon's opinion lambasting the ruling by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that prohibits young teens from acquiring the Plan B pill without a prescription. From a physician's point of view, the article intersperses all kinds of consequences from unprotected sexual activity, including HIV infection, with the discussion on Plan B. Plan B does absolutely nothing for the dangers of unprotected sex, and, in fact, I would worry that taking away the fear of pregnancy from young teens may actually encourage more sexual activity - some of which will be unprotected - and potentially increases the incidence of sexually transmitted infections.

From Dean Jones Jr. and Andrea F. Siegel: A Glen Burnie High School English teacher was arrested Thursday and charged with sexually abusing three female students over the past two years, Anne Arundel County police said. Jeffrey Robert Sears Jr., 29, of the 400 block of Luther Road in Glen Burnie, is facing more than a dozen criminal counts, including sexual abuse of a minor, sexual solicitation of a minor and assault. He was held Thursday in lieu of $3 million bail. The allegations involve three girls who were ages 15 and 16 at the time of the sexual activity that occurred between November 2009 and October of this year, police spokesman Justin Mulcahy said at a news conference held jointly by police and school officials.

A Severn man, who police say pretended to be a teenager online and solicited boys in their early teens for sex, was charged with multiple sex offenses Wednesday, according to a statement by Baltimore County police. Brandon Henry Sukeforth, 22, was arrested last week after a woman discovered her 14-year-old son had been a party to suspicious messages and phone calls that prompted her to contact police, the statement said. The messages and calls made the mother suspect her son was having sex with an adult man, police said.

The kerfuffle between Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry over the HPV vaccination, administered to young girls in order to prevent cervical cancer later in life, is the perfect example of why you might not want a politician to be your pediatrician. During a debate last week in Tampa, Bachmann described the vaccination, which Perry attempted to make mandatory in Texas where he is governor, as a "government injection" and "a violation of a liberty interest.

A man who lived near Joppatowne High School pleaded guilty late Thursday to federal charges of enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. The charge against Larry W. Warner, Jr., 33, stemmed from advertisements he placed on Craigslist.com initially seeking girls underwear for lewd purposes, according to the agreed statement of facts that accompanied a plea agreement entered in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The plea agreement stipulates that prosecutors will recommend a 10-year prison term for Warner when he is sentenced, plus supervision for the rest of his life upon release.

Sex among U.S. teen-agers has become so common that more than half of all young women have had intercourse by the time they turn 20, and a majority of those have had two or more sexual partners by that age, a new study has found.The change has been due mostly to a sharp rise in sexual activity among white and higher-income female teens, while intercourse levels among minority and low-income teens have increased only slightly in the last five years, according to thestudy released this week by the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York.

My family and I spent a great evening in Baltimore at the Orioles game last Saturday. Even though we live in Wilmington, De., we make it to Camden Yards a dozen times a year. Our family are long time Orioles fans, and we look forward to spending time in both Maryland and Baltimore. After the Orioles lost to Toronto on Saturday, we took our usual good time leaving the park. One of our stops is to check out the merchandise at the stands located on Pratt Street after the game. As we walked towards the souvenir stands, our nine-year-old son said, "What is that?"

Baltimore's liquor board suspended for six months the license for Stagedoor, a strip club on The Block, after inspectors testified that they spotted a dancer holding a used condom while giving a man a lap dance. The board also found Stagedoor guilty of allowing minors to possess alcohol at the club during the same July 11 visit by inspectors. Four youths ages 17 to 19 were allowed in and seen with alcohol. The suspension was the third substantial penalty levied by the liquor board in the past four weeks, after a six-month suspension of a Mexican restaurant's liquor license and the revocation of a Canton club's license.