June 28, 2011
Get the soup, herbal tea, vaporizers, cough drops, tissues and tender love and care ready — your man is sick. Women may accuse men of being babies when they get a cold, exaggerating for the extra attention they used to get as little boys when it was perfectly fine to need their mommies, but men ...
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June 7, 2011
Ladies, you can finally breathe a sigh of relief. In a couple years, you may be able to sit back and relax. No more daily pill popping, Depo-Provera injection every three months or wrestling with the female condom. A pill for men is in the works! Like the conventional pill for women, the pill made ...
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May 6, 2011
It’s always been accepted as a given that women are more weepy than men. It’s just the scapegoat that changes. Women are hormonal, PMS-ing, menopausal and overall more delicate than men. Men learn to control their tears. Their fathers, peers, siblings and even women might think they’re pansies if they don’t. We all know that ...
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August 18, 2010
Everybody knows that mothers’ brains are changed with pregnancy and childbirth. They are given a massive dose of hormones. We also know that fathers’ lives are profoundly different after having children, but did you know that their brain structure is also changed?
June 18, 2010
Has your husband been blaming his lack of energy or low sex drive on male menopause? Research has just shown that this affects less than 1% of middle age men and 5% over 70. Looks like that husband of yours might just be lazy! Researchers defined male menopause as having abnormally low levels of testosterone. The symptoms of ...
May 3, 2010
Beautiful women cause heart attacks? Not quite, but researchers have found that being near beautiful women (for men) increases levels of a hormone that is linked to heart disease. Generally, this hormone is useful to humans.
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March 12, 2010
New research shows that women who take the pill are less likely to die from a range of diseases. This is good news for women worried about the effect the hormones might have on them because a lot of these effects turn out to be positive. They found that women on the pill are less likely ...
February 15, 2010
Men in Manchester and Edinburgh are taking part in a two-year trial for an injectable male contraceptive. Comments by readers on this article talk of an end to men being tricked into supporting children who are not theirs.
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September 23, 2009
Dear Madame X, Love waits and I did until I was married. We’ve just back from our honeymoon where we went through packs of condoms, and we have decided that we hate them. They’re just gross. We don’t want to have kids yet, but abstinence is over (Yeah!), so what are my options? I don’t ...
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