One thing you find out really early in a relationship is that it’s true: Everyone Poops. And everyone farts, too, around ten times a day on average. How couples handle this gas varies wildly: Some clamp down hard, with a strict no-emissions zone declared in their shared...
Last Easter, one popular candy surprised people by turning their poop from brown to a vibrant pink. Fun! While color variance in your stool might normally be the sign of life-threatening internal bleeding, it can also be something much more benign — you just ate the wrong thing. Or better...
Stress sucks. Not only can it eventually kill you, before it does that, it makes your life a living hell by weakening your immune system, causing ulcers, increasing memory loss, promoting abdominal obesity and accelerating the aging process. Worse yet, virtually none of us know how to...
Shrinkage: Nature’s humble pie. Why does the cold seemingly make everything below the belt seem smaller? I’ve always assumed it was fight-or-flight related, like a turtle retreating into its shell to hide from the elements. Or was that just a matter of resemblance? It turns out, however,...
Every now and then, even the staunchest home-bathroom-only poopers will find themselves using the facilities in unfamiliar — even hostile — territory. Regardless of your feelings on the issue, keeping your impending dump from innocent eyes, ears and noses can be a tricky situation. So to help you navigate the intricacies...
Pooping at work can be daunting for many reasons—no one likes the thought of their coworkers either hearing or smelling their bathroom activities (unless they really hate their coworkers). That work toilet is also never going to be as comfortable as your throne at home. So the...
Of the laundry list of side effects that make up most commercials for prescription pills, the ones that have the most immediate impact on men watching tend to be those focused on their sex lives: Do I want to take this cholesterol medication if it’s going to...
Whether we mean to or not, we’re all constantly judging each other, on everything from our handshakes to our gym clothes. Even our laugh — something we think of as involuntary — isn’t safe from this constant unconscious scrutiny, implying a range of potentially negative traits across both class and gender....
If we’re being completely honest, it’s not exactly uncommon for a man who’s been soaking in a warm tub for a while to end up playing with, well, something more than his rubber ducky. But a recent survey we conducted, asking men what they like to do...
We already know that some guys aren’t the absolute best at hygiene. Over a third of men don’t wash their hands every time they’re done urinating, for example, while seven percent of men like to talk on the phone while pooping. Our latest survey on bathroom habits...
While you might remember your early teen years as some of the more, um, frantic in terms of masturbation, the real action generally comes slightly later: According to the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior put forth by Indiana University, men’s solo masturbation habits peak between...
Annoying as it is, there are parts of our bodies we should be getting checked out way more often than we do. Alongside our expert advisor Dr. Marc Leavey, primary care physician, we’re here to find out what we should be doing, why we should be doing...
