Word: menstrual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...animals can send out such unconscious messages, do humans have the same skills? Perhaps, say some researchers. One tantalizing clue comes from "menstrual synchrony," the common phenomenon of women who are close friends, or live together. In 1971 University of Chicago Psychologist Martha McClintock, then at Harvard, tested 135 women and showed that the menstrual cycles of friends and roommates moved from an average of 8.5 days apart to less than 5 days during a school year...
According to medical folklore, one way of conceiving male babies is to restrict intercourse to specific days in the menstrual cycle. But which days? Now a study of Orthodox Jewish women at Jerusalem's Hebrew University has produced a clue. Tallying up the sex of 3,658 babies born to women who observed the Jewish practice of niddah, which forbids sexual relations during menstruation and for seven days thereafter, Epidemiologist Susan Harlap reports a surprising result in the New England Journal of Medicine: of the 145 babies born to women who resumed intercourse two days after ovulation, 65.5% were...
...VIOLENCE. Potentially interesting subjects, especially when you're talking about television. Robert Wood, one-time president of CBS, for example, vetoes a script for The Waltons because it describes (in lurid and graphic detail) Mary Ellen's "confused reaction to her first menstrual period." Lee Grant--Phyllis to sitcom junkies-- asks her daughter whether she lost her virginity on a ski weekend with a group of teenagers. "The subject matter was simply unacceptable for Family Viewing. It dealt too directly with sex." CBS editors jokingly called the episode--which the writer titled "Bess, Is You a Woman Now,"--"Did Bess...
...second panel, entitled "The Effects of Athletics on the Young Woman," three women physicians said weight loss and anxiety experienced by women athletes during training can lead to interruption of the menstrual cycle...
...third of all heterosexual women said that their breasts are not a particularly important erogenous zone, yet many considered breast play exciting because men seemed to enjoy it. Unlike lesbians, who knew that touching the breasts can be painful during certain times of the menstrual cycle, heterosexual men almost always touched the breasts in the same way. Even when breast play caused pain, the wives reported the fact to the researchers, but not to their husbands. Say Masters and Johnson: "When the husbands were queried separately, they expressed surprise at their wives' cyclic distress, and the unanimous reaction...