sexual activity

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“People think you can only get hepatitis B through intravenous drug use or sexual activity, and that’s actually not true,” says Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on infectious diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

Studies suggest that notification requirements don’t significantly impact sexual activity or contraceptive use, but they do lead more adolescents to become parents.

From Slate • May 29, 2025

It has also been unconstitutional for states to criminalize same-sex sexual activity since the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024

This finding, noted Ryan, points to some aspect of bearing children -- rather than sociocultural factors associated with early fertility or sexual activity -- as a driver of biological aging.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

As we rise in the animal series, brain and adrenal glands march side by side in developmental increase of size, and at the same time, sexual activity and adrenal activity equally correspond.

From Little Essays of Love and Virtue by Ellis, Havelock