Sexuality News

More than 13% of US high school students reported indoor tanning in 2011, with a greater prevalence among female, older and non-Hispanic white females, and an association with other risk-taking behaviors, according to recent survey results.

Psychiatric comorbidity had a greater influence on sexual satisfaction of patients with fibromyalgia compared with the disease itself, according to study results.

At some point in their lifetime, 7.2% of women aged at least 15 years experienced non-partner sexual violence, according to data published in The Lancet. Researchers reported the highest estimates occurred in central and southern sub-Saharan Africa.

Homosexual and bisexual adolescent boys are more likely to misuse anabolic-androgenic steroids and have an increased risk for victimization, depression, substance use and suicide, according to a study in Pediatrics.

Nearly one in 10 adolescents reported using some type of coercive or forced sexual violence during their lifetime, according to recent study findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Well-established anti-homophobia policies or gay-straight alliances resulted in positive effects on both gay and straight students’ alcohol use, according to recent study findings published in Preventive Medicine.

Peer victimization of lesbian, gay and bisexual adolescents in England was highest as students entered high school, but there was a significant reduction overall in victimization during subsequent years, according to recent findings published in Pediatrics.

Increased body surface area of vitiligo was associated with escalated quality-of-life impairments, including pruritus and sexual dysfunction, according to study results.

Listening to MP3 players at higher volumes and attending loud concerts have been linked to other health-risk behaviors in adolescents, according to new research. “As with more traditional risk behaviors such as substance use and unsafe sexual intercourse, of which adverse health consequences have been recognized as important public health issues, risky music-listening behaviors pose a threat to young peoples’ future health,” researcher Ineke Vogel, PhD, and colleagues from the Netherlands wrote.

Two levels of diagnosis relating to substance use — abuse and dependence — will be absent from the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, according Charles O’Brien, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania.