sexual activity
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Most cases occurred among children and adolescents, a pattern more consistent with nonvenereal treponemal diseases that spread through skin contact rather than sexual activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
It’s possible that declining fertility “may be less about the cost of raising a child and more about whether the relationships and sexual activity that produce children are forming at all.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
“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
As a general rule, in the human female, a single ovum is developed and discharged once in about four weeks, during the period of sexual activity.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
