This phrase may be uttered more often by women than by men, and it’s not just because men are so tough and macho. Although it’s possible for men to underplay the pain they feel in the name of preserving their masculinity, researchers suggest there’s something much deeper underlying the difference between men and women when ...
It’s a sad fact that men still don’t look after themselves properly. Sure, we check for lumps on our nuts now and again, and have our glands probed by a chilly-fingered nurse in our Well Man exams; but as Dr. Larry Goldenberg, head of the department of urologic sciences at Vancouver General Hospital and the ...
If you do a quick Google search of the word “rape,” you get dozens of headlines about the victims of sex crimes around the world. Most of us have no trouble saying that a great deal of these victims are women. In the Pickton inquiry alone there’s an ever-increasing list of women who are coming ...
While the world has been busy obsessing over female hormones and growth, we have missed out on a huge problem affecting us in a different way. Forty percent of men over the age of 45 have a testosterone deficiency. Uh oh. Aside from the expected irritability and loss in strength, almost all of the symptoms ...
A new study finds that more than half of women experience feelings of attraction towards other women at some point in their lives. Researchers at Boise State University (BSU) polled a group of 484 heterosexual women and found that a whopping 60 percent of those polled were sexually attracted to other women. On top of this, 45 ...
I like to think of myself as a modern man. I can change a nappy, I do my share of the cooking and cleaning at home, and I don’t know one end of a spanner from another. But this latter aspect of my metrosexuality, previously a source of some pride, has more recently caused me ...
Mrs Lobster and I were in a bit of a fix the other night. We were driving back from an afternoon in Brighton, when a few warning lights lit up on the car dashboard and some of the meters started going nuts. Mrs L looked in the car manual that was still in its dedicated ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good bellyful of dinner must be in want of a giant belch. Or, if it’s a bit longer after the repast, a fart. And I don’t think I’d be committing too great a faux pas of sexual stereotyping if I said that ...
There’s nothing wrong with girls who play sports or boys who dance. In fact, the two aren’t really that different from each other. They both involve balance, physical conditioning, partnering or team work, discipline, perseverance, and a competitive streak in personality. Most of the time girls who play sport are not treated too badly. We ...
Tony Porter, an educator and activist against violence against women, has called for men to stop “acting like a man” and to break out of the “man box.” This “man box” is what he calls the “collective socialization of men”. It perpetuates the idea that men are not allowed to have feelings, that they are ...
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On dates I still love a little bit of chivalry — but it goes too far when the restaurant...
There has been an upswing in royal fever on both sides of the Atlantic since last April. When Kate...
Dear Madame X, I know you say that it’s not good to fake your orgasms, but what if you...
It is one of the oldest institutions in the world. Most humans are actively engaged in it as I...
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
