A Peace Country summer is short, and the work does not pause for it. Men on rigs, in the trades, on farms and on road crews put in long days in heat that the region…
A layoff. A separation. A diagnosis. A move, a demotion, a death in the family, the end of a rotation that had structured the last eight years. Something changes, and a few weeks later a…
Sexual health screening tends to be treated as a young man's concern. It is offered in a man's twenties, occasionally in his thirties, and then quietly drops off the list — not through any deliberate…
Most men notice it in the shower or while getting dressed: a soft bulge low in the groin, sometimes extending toward the scrotum, that appears when standing or straining and disappears on lying down. There…
Ask men who have put off getting tested what they were actually avoiding, and the answer is almost never the swab or the needle. It is the conversation. The moment of saying out loud why…
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…
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…
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…
The antibiotic is usually the easy part. Men leave an STI appointment with a treatment plan and a clear sense of what happens next medically, and then sit in the truck for twenty minutes trying…
