Researchers had expected to find that high STD rates are linked with promiscuity, but they had their "preconceptions dashed," as one researcher put it

- actually it did, in countries where women and men can be equally wild, there was no connection to STD rates, but in countries where only men can be sexually active with many partners, there was a higher rate of STD's.

- seems to me the link is sexual equality, regardless of sexual behavior is safer to the general population. Then cultures with sexual inequality which leads to high STD rates, if members of the community are promiscuous.

Except, prostotution, and lower caste women with little choice in the matter are the issue.

You have 10 men, and 10 women, - 9 are couples

but the one single man and the 9 married ones all go to the 10th woman, you still have nine women with only one partner. It really is very easy.

When my grandmother was 16, she was married, and had kids - plural. And she wasn't unusual. As the marriage age in the USA goes up, the age of childhood and laws forcing people to be children seem to go up (21 drinking?)

If my grandmother was mature enough to be married, have kids, and help my grandfather who wasn't much older run a farm, and jobs on the side.... how is it these poor modern 16 years old, are not capable of making their own medical decisions, when did we start infatizing teenageers so much?

In most countries they are adults, married working at this age, but we have artificially strung out childhood.

A sixteen year old will make decisions about sex regardless of what their parents think, and they should be the ones to decide if they are going to tell their parents about their decision about a pregnancy.

Soon we'll raise the age for drinking, driving, voting marriage to well over 21 (of course military will still be 18) because our aging population, and dwindling number of youths has set up a strange dynamic in this country.

Its time to look at your parents, when they got married, had kids, and your grandparents and then look at the silly trends of using our teenagers as a sheild to hide behind to pass morality laws to enforce a minorities religious believes on others, and at the same time, erode the rights of the young, never allowing them to grow up.

"No political figure would dare deny the saintliness of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; Betty Friedan's name is a political dirty word."

You mean the man who had endless affairs? And a rather terrible personal life? A saint? No, a human being, whose ideals came to be accepted in public life after his death. Since his cause has been deemed worthy, his private life is excused. As it should be...

All this proves is that feminism is further behind, and less evolved, and given less serious consideration then equal rights by skin color. Feminism, is a dirty word, butt of jokes, because it doesn't really exist, and significant number of folks don't believe in it, or even bother to give it lip service. Even if a politician didn't believe in civil rights, he would give it lip service, because it has a large enough following, lip service to feminism can be ignored as long, as it not to blatantly anti-woman.

When looking up info on Attention Deficit Disorder for my daughter, they mentioned food allergies as a cause sometimes, they mentioned McDonald Hamburgers, over 30 chemical additives to give it the McDonald's flavor, my daughter only eats organic meat, and understands, we don't do fast food, it makes a difference in her behavior, and I bet it makes a different category then the young women in the study.

Source of meat, regular store - issue hormones added to cows.

Source of meat - fast food restaurant - hormones + chemical flavor additives.

What fun, not all meat is equal.

I am willing to believe Hayes is genuinely upset, if my egg was placed in someone else, I'd be haunted by the possibility of a child.

Basically he has been robbed, and violated. But it wasn't the other couple that did this, and they should not be punished - setting up an everything you might want to know about the bio parent repository for the child’s future access is the best Hayes should/can expect from them - since they are an innocent party.

But the fertility client with such poor lab processes, where such a thing could happen in the first place, should have all of its case records reviewed. Pay for genetic testing for every past patent that wants it... the head of the lab fired, new safe guards put in place. And yes since they robbed Hayes, and caused him this strange emotional damage, a jury should decide on damages.

But I doubt money will take away the strange feeling, that some where out there is a child who is part of him.