Most prevention advice about sexually transmitted infections is written as though people behave consistently, plan ahead, and make decisions sober. Real life is less tidy. Condoms get used sometimes and not other times, decisions get…
The oral medications for erectile dysfunction are among the most recognisable drugs in the world, and also among the most misunderstood. Men arrive at appointments having already formed firm opinions about them — that they…
Mpox entered general awareness in Canada as an outbreak concentrated in networks of men who have sex with men, and it has largely stayed filed under that heading since. That framing has been unhelpful in…
Kidneys are among the few organs that give no warning at all until a great deal of function has already gone. There is no ache, no change in how much a man passes, and no…
The reasoning is understandable and it is wrong. Nothing hurts, nothing looks different, nothing has changed — therefore there is nothing to test for. It is the same logic most men apply to blood pressure…
There is a particular frustration in being told that nothing is wrong when something clearly is. Chronic scrotal pain — an ache, a dragging heaviness, or a sharper pain in one or both testicles lasting…
The reason most men give for not getting tested is distance or time. The reason underneath that, more often than not, is a picture in their head of how the appointment will go — a…
Circumstances change. A man who was certain at thirty-four that his family was complete may be forty-two, in a new relationship, and facing a partner who wants a child. Or a couple who made the…
Anabolic steroid use is far more common than the number of men who mention it to a physician would suggest. It runs through gyms, through some trades, and through men in their thirties and forties…
A fair number of men sit in the parking lot for a few minutes before a first mental health appointment. The apprehension is rarely about the problem that brought them in. It is about the…
