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  <title>Sex and more sex.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Welcome to "The State of the Sexual Union," Slate's Sex Issue. Today and tomorrow, we'll publish a series of articles that examine the unavoidable presence of sex in science and culture.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174679/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:28:04 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Should we encourage the elderly to have more sex in nursing homes?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  When 15 elderly residents at a rundown and understaffed nursing home in Tampa, Fla., died over a three-year span that recently ended, their families filed suit in state court. According to Charles Duhigg's damning report in last Sunday's New York Times, these claims of negligence don't have much of a chance. Throughout the industry, financial backers have begun to hide their profits behind elaborate corporate façades, making litigation against nursing homes almost impossible. Not surprisingly, the quality of care is already in decline.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174855/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>the sex issue</category>
  <author>Daniel Engber</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:23:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Does the HPV vaccine promote promiscuity?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In recent months, you may have seen a TV ad featuring striking young women skateboarding and drumming as a voice-over intones, "Every year, thousands of women die from cervical cancer. I want to be one less woman who will battle cancer." The women represented are self-confident, accomplished, artistic, and independent. Only one boy shows up in the ad—in a still photo. But what is most striking about the ad is that it is just one part of a much larger cultural and political battle about young women and sex.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174850/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Meghan O'Rourke</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:31:57 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why are there only two sexes?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Why is the mating game almost always a dance of two, whether the scene is a swank Manhattan watering hole or the shallows of an average pond? Why not three or four possibilities, or even more?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174380/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2464" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2464" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Amanda Schaffer</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:29:16 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Can donated sperm be infected with mad cow disease?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  U.S. sperm banks are facing a Scandinavian sperm shortage. For the past few years, companies like Cryos International have been using frozen stocks to cope with high demand for blue-eyed Nordic babies, but they can't replenish their supply because of a 2005 FDA ban [PDF] on sperm from all European countries with exposure to mad cow. Can you really get the disease from artificial insemination?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174789/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>the sex issue</category>
  <author>Juliet Lapidos</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:05:09 EST</pubDate>
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