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Men who buy sex have much in common with sexually coercive men

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2015Culture, Science, Sexaggressive, buy sex, empathy, job, melissa farley, men, neil malamuth, nordic model, prostitution, regulating prostitution, sex buyers, sexual abuse, sexual acts, sexually coercive

Findings support decades of research by UCLA professor who co-authored study

“It’s like she’s not really there.”
– Study participant who bought sex (more…)

Men: Do These 7 Things for Your Heart

By Guest PostJune 21, 2014Healthalpine insects, avalanche, body mass index, ftsz, glacier national park, heart disease, joe giersch, khloe kardashian, kw factor, lamar odom, meditation, meltwater stonefly, men, symptoms, walk, zellteilung

June is National Men’s Health Month and CPR and AED Awareness Month.

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of men, and the hearts of one of eight men over age 40 will at some point suddenly stop beating – an event known as sudden cardiac arrest.

June is both National Men’s Health Month and CPR and AED Awareness Month, making it a good time to revisit ways to prevent heart disease. (more…)

New intervention reduces risky sex among bisexual African-American men

By Guest PostAugust 25, 2013Health, Sexafrican american legacy, african american men, african americans, biphobia, bisexual men, disenfranchisement, ethnic, ethnicity, financial hardship, historical discrimination, hiv infection, hiv prevention program, hiv stigma, homophobia, john k williams, journal aids, maales, men, nina harawa, race, racial group, sexual decision making, ucla

A culturally tailored HIV prevention program developed and tested by investigators at UCLA and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science has been shown to significantly reduce unprotected sex among bisexual black men.

The innovative approach, called Men of African American Legacy Empowering Self, or MAALES, is described in an article in the peer-reviewed journal AIDS. (more…)

Men, Women Lie About Sex to Match Gender Expectations

By Guest PostJune 5, 2013General, Health, Sexdetector machine, gender expectations, gender related behaviors, journal, lie about sex, male type, men, non sexual behaviors, questionnaire, real men, sex roles, sexual intercourse, sexual partners, stereotypical male activity, stereotypical ways, terri fisher, typical female behaviors, women

For Other Behaviors, People Care Less about Meeting Norms

COLUMBUS, Ohio – People will lie about their sexual behavior to match cultural expectations about how men or women should act – even though they wouldn’t distort other gender-related behaviors, new research suggests.

The study found that men were willing to admit that they sometimes engaged in behaviors seen by college students as more appropriate for women, such as writing poetry. The same was true for women, who didn’t hide the fact that they told obscene jokes, or sometimes participated in other “male-type” deeds. (more…)

Global health policy fails to address burden of disease on men

By Guest PostMay 20, 2013General, Healthaids, alcohol use, burden of disease, cerebrovascular disease, chris murray, davidson gwatkin, decline, economic situation, gender inequalities, gender norms, global health policy, global mortality rates, hiv, ischemic heart disease, kent buse, lancet, life expectancy, lower respiratory infections, men, policy makers, sarah hawkes, tobacco smoking, unaids, university of washington, unprotected sex, unsafe sex, women

Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, according to a Viewpoint article in this week’s Lancet.

The article reinterprets data from the ‘Global Burden of Disease: 2010’ study which shows that all of the top ten causes of premature death and disability, and the top ten behavioural risk factors driving rates of ill-health around the world, affect men more than they affect women. (more…)

Boys’ Lack of Effort in School Tied to College Gender Gap

By Guest PostMarch 5, 2013Educationbachelors degrees, better job, blue collar, boy friendly, claudia buchmann, college education, columbia university, education gender gap, gender gap, lower class families, men, middle class families, narrow notions, proportion of men, receiving college degrees, single sex education, sociologists, sociology, thomas diprete, united states, working class fathers

New Book Examines Why Women Succeed More in College

COLUMBUS, Ohio – When it comes to college education, men are falling behind by standing still.

The proportion of men receiving college degrees has stagnated, while women have thrived under the new economic and social realities in the United States and elsewhere, according to two sociologists who have written a new book on the subject. (more…)

Football Scores a Health Hat Trick for Hypertensive Men

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2012Healthblood pressure, body fat, british men, cardiovascular disease, control group, copenhagen, coronary artery, cycling, denmark, disease, exercise capacity, exeter, fat burning, fifa, gentofte university, gps, heart rate, high, hospital, hypertension, maximal, men, middle aged, mmhg, moderate hypertension, oxygen uptake, peter krustrup, peter riis hansen, physical exercise, playing football, risk, soccer, stroke, university

Playing football (soccer) could be the best way for people with high blood pressure, known as hypertension, to improve their fitness, normalise their blood pressure and reduce their risk of stroke, according to research published today (Monday 15 October 2012) in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.

Research from Universities of Exeter and Copenhagen, and Gentofte University Hospital in Denmark suggests football training prevents cardiovascular disease in middle-aged men with hypertension and is more effective than healthy lifestyle advice currently prescribed by GPs.

After six months of football training, three out of four men in this study had blood pressure within the normal, healthy range. (more…)

Recipe for Starting a Family: Add Walnuts

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2012Health, Sciencea linolenic acid, catherine carpenter, dietary habits, essential nutrient, fertility, infertility clinic, leah fitzgerald, lin xun, male factor, men, omega-3, recipe, samantha esguerra, semen quality, sperm parameter, walnuts, wendie robbins, western style diet

UCLA School of Nursing study shows walnuts improve sperm quality

Eating about two handfuls of walnuts a day may provide men the added boost they need to improve their fertility, according to a breakthrough study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing.

Findings from the study, “Walnuts Improve Semen Quality in Men Consuming a Western-Style Diet: Randomized Control Dietary Intervention Trial,” are published Aug. 15 in the “papers in press” section of the peer-reviewed journal Biology of Reproduction.

This is the first study to look at the effects of a plant source of omega-3 on sperm, the researchers say. Statistics from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine show that one in six couples is infertile, with about 40 percent of these cases due to a male factor. (more…)

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