MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'asexual'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:03 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3889306&cid=t_176887_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fno-sex-people%2F This article may help. Andy is young and healthy – yet he’s never experienced physical desire. And there are thousands more like him. Olly Bootle meets the asexuals. At 21, Andy Holland is happy, easy-going and interested in the same things as most university students. With one notable exception: Holland is not attracted to women, or to men. In fact, he has no desire to have sex. And in this, he is not as unusual as we might assume. The first crush that Tessa Barratt had was on a Transformers toy called Rat Trap. “He was my first heart throb,” she says. The shelves in her bedroom are lined with models of Transformers. Playing with them now, laughs as she admits, “I don’t know how I fell in love with a rat.” Barratt is now 22. But she’s not that much closer to having what mo... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3889306 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:24:01 +0100 3889306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3479830&cid=t_176887_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FmVvI4Yoy74A%2F Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. – Bill Watterson Post from: BlissTree Quote of the Day: Weekends, According to Calvin and Hobbes (Source: Genetics and Health) Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3479830 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:48:20 +0100 3479830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3283828&cid=t_176887_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2F7spyGevO9xA%2F Many people in recovery from alcoholism, addiction, co-dependency and compulsive gambling may identify with these points. They may be the victim, the perpetrator or an observer. These reasons apply to heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual and transsexual people. Additionally, just because someone is in recovery does not exclude them from being difficult in relationships. Why would a woman stay in a relationship with a guy who puts her down, hems her in, and perhaps even physically abuses her? Why would a woman hold down two jobs to keep the rent paid and food on the table while her boyfriend sits around smoking weed all day? Why oh why would a woman allow herself to be emotionally blackmailed by her boyfriend’s threats that he will kill himself or her or both if she even talks ab... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3283828 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:24:06 +0100 3283828 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2112185&cid=t_176887_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2009%2F01%2F17%2Fsexbolt-saturday-asexual-you-are-not-alone%2F Remember Claire, the 105 year old who said ‘no sex was the secret to longevity’. Well, it turns out that she’s not alone in being disinterested in sex. Seems that that are a whole lot of people (research has the number at 1% of the population) out there who classify themselves as asexual - as having no interest in sex and feeling no sexual attraction. It’s a concept that most of us have difficulty understanding. We ask: How could someone be totally disinterested in sex? Don’t they want to make connections and have relationships with others? Don’t they want someone to love? And what about children and a family? David Jay has been wrestling with these questions most of his life. Early on, he realized that unlike all his friends, he really had no interest i... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2112185 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:40:57 +0100 2112185 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1353066&cid=t_176887_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F264762705%2F In followup to the Aspergillus RIP paper discussion, Jo Anne posted in the comments that her paper published in FGB about RIP in another asexual species of fungi also found that evidence for the meiosis-specific process of Repeat Induced Point-mutations (RIP).   So what is going on? Is meiosis occurring cryptically in nature without any evidence for this in the lab Certainly we have evidence for recombination among species (Coccidiodies, Aspergillus fumigatus, Batrachochytrium) that don't appear to have a defined sexual cycle (no teleomorphic stage).  Maybe there is some small amount of hybridization and meiosis among these species despite best efforts to induce it in the lab? It seems likely that RIP is dependent on aspects of the mating process, and another article from Arnaise et al ... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1353066 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:13:08 +0100 1353066