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The average American full-time employee spent 6 hours and 24 minutes per day working or commuting to work in 2016. That’s 44 hours and 52 minutes per week (for reference, there are 168 hours in a week). And more damningly, that includes the weekends. But let’s be...
Dr. Gary Alter, an assistant clinical professor in plastic surgery at UCLA with practices in Beverly Hills, Manhattan and Dubai, has been performing scrotoplasty, or scrotal lifts, for nearly 20 years. One of just a handful of surgeons who perform the procedure in the U.S., Alter estimates...
“You’ve been dumped? Ah, crap, sorry man. Let’s all get drunk and go to a strip club.” That’s about as far as most men go to console their friends after a bad breakup. As psychology professor Nancy Kalish told us when describing what causes men to perpetually pine...
It might sound absurd enough to be a joke, but some men really are allergic to their own semen. “In medical terms, this is known as postorgasmic illness syndrome (POIS),” says Bayo Tojuola, a board-certified urologist in Houston. “It usually involves experiencing flu-like symptoms shortly after each...
We’ve written before about how there’s a cure for chronic lateness, which basically boils down to recognizing your lack of empathy and embracing your innately selfish nature: “Chronically late people need to find a motivation for making punctuality a priority,” says Ron Helpman, a psychotherapist in New...
One of the unfortunate byproducts of my newfound sobriety has been an inability to sleep in past 7 a.m. It used to be that a noxious combo of booze and other stuff could reliably knock me out until noon. Now, however, my well-rested, ascetic brain is awoken by...
Recently, the following came to our attention: “The clitoris keeps growing in size and power to the time a woman hits 32 years of age, where it quadrupled in size from puberty.” Which, naturally, raises the question: Does the same happen with our penises? That is, will...
Don’t have three hours a day to spend at the gym? Not interested in bulging like a bodybuilder? Unmoved by promises of “fat-blasting, ab-chiseling monster workouts”? This is the column for you, fellow regular human with very little free time. … The Man Name: John F., London,...
Earlier this month, writing for The Guardian, Lily Canter vented about why couples should never go running together: “By the time we reached home I was fuming, accusing him of treating me like his training guinea pig, and of a complete inability to understand my level of...
There’s nothing quite like a picture of a sexy woman to get you in the cheater’s mindset, right? Right, says a new research paper by several Taiwanese academics, who found that the mere sight of attractive women can make men more dishonest. Given the amazing title, “Sexy...
Donnacha broke both of his knees. At 40 years old, he’d just moved into a new apartment. Since he was the compulsive exercising sort, his first two purchases were an air mattress and a cheap pull-up bar he installed in the doorway. It was a Saturday afternoon,...
Love doing nothing but can’t stand having to think about your nothingness (aka mindfulness)? Well, have I got a concept for you: It’s called niksen, and it’s a hot Dutch lifestyle trend that encourages you to do nothing. Or rather, the word means “doing nothing for nothing,”...