Boys and Sex: Why Are They Waiting Longer For Their First Time?

A still shot from the documentary, How to Lose Your Virginity

By Therese Shechter “The proportion of all American adolescents in their mid-teens claiming sexual experience has decreased, and for boys the decline has been especially steep,” writes Amy Schalet in her excellent New York Times article about boys becoming sexually active later than expected. It’s a timely conversation … [Read more...]

Regenerating Hymens and Bloody Sheets: What’s Really Going On Down There?

HymenFilm

By Therese Shechter A few months ago at a dinner party, the topic of hymens came up (don’t all your dinner parties go like this?) and how on rare occasions the membrane is completely sealed and has to be surgically opened. One of the men there wondered how the condition could go unnoticed, seeing as it would block the … [Read more...]