It wasn’t that long ago that women were considered the legal property of men. Ownership of a woman was transferred from her father to husband upon marriage, and signified by her swapping out her father’s last name for her husband’s. Treating women as literal chattel seems unthinkable...
Mouths are home to many odd sensations, but perhaps one of the strangest is the instant freeze that occurs when following a minty stick of gum with a gulp of cold water. Therefore, in this edition of It’s Not a Stupid Question, we ask why the heck...
In today’s world of extensive male grooming, men are faced with a bewildering array of hair products. Mousse, gel, wax, fiber, paste, clay, pomade and more vie for attention on the shelves of the local pharmacy, each promising a slightly different hold or texture. But back in...
Feel like you haven’t gotten a good handshake in years? It’s not you. Kids today can’t grip for shit. A study out of Winston-Salem State University found that men in their early 20s in 1985 could crush, on average, 121 pounds with their right hand, and 105...
The image of the man who spends his nights on the internet is that of a prowler — a dude whose sole purpose is to slide into DMs. Dr. Nancy Kalish offers another archetype of the modern male trolling social media — that of the guy looking to track down his...
Potty Talk is a one-panel comic about the funny thoughts, observations and fears men have in the bathroom. This week’s is from writer and illustrator Brendan McGinley. Check out more of his stuff here.
It’s easy to think washing your hands after a trip to the restroom is optional—after all, you only touched your own body parts in there, right? But one of our recent surveys showed that less than two-thirds of men consistently wash their hands after peeing, which is...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, we find out why our dreams are mostly meaningless; why monkeys are responsible for weird things that happen as you’re falling...
There are few workplace issues more fraught than “open” office plans, in which companies tear down their interior walls so workers can sit right next to each other without so much as a cubicle partition between them. These open offices — whether rows of communal work tables or clusters...
The most popular post in the history of the r/happycryingdads subreddit is a video of man learning he’s going to be a grandfather. The man, who has a mustache and wears a Chicago Cubs bullpen jacket, opens a box to find a pacifier. Tied to the pacifier...
It’s not a secret that for the last several years, vinyl record sales have been trending upward — with sales in 2016 reaching their highest point since 1988. Estimates vary a bit, but at bare minimum, the number of records manufactured annually is well into eight figures. Regardless of...
Ten miles south of Vegas, along an otherwise uneventful stretch of freeway, sits a colorful pile of neon rocks. While they could be mistaken for a desert mirage—or an acid flashback—they’re actually an art installation. The day-glow Stonehenge, named “Seven Magic Mountains,” is the brainchild of artist...
