Since the dawn of time — or at least since the dawn of The Howard Stern Show and Reddit — men of smallish flaccid penises have sworn that there’s serious truth to the claim, “I’m a grower, not a shower.” Showers, like Jon Hamm, have large flaccid penises that don’t increase...
Eric Ravussin, among the world’s foremost obesity experts, offers a single anecdote he believes perfectly captures how poorly Americans think about adding physical activity into their everyday lives. He and his three children were living in Arizona in the early 1980s. The kids’ school was just a...
Danny Cahill weighed in at 430 pounds when Biggest Loser Season 8 began in 2009. Over the course of 13 episodes and nearly seven months, he lost 239 pounds to win the contest. But in the seven years since, he’s regained about 100 of the lost pounds....
In February’s Bathroom Minutes magazine, we took a deep dive into the inner workings of a few common types of love, like love at first sight and familial love. But there’s more than one way to capture a heart, so we sat back down with Human Behavior...
In our new series, What I Learned from Getting My Ass Kicked, people from all walks of life discuss setbacks that could’ve finished them, and how they dealt with those defeats. This edition, ultrarunner Dean Karnazes — who has run across the Sahara Desert and completed a marathon to...
Mark “The Shark” Quartiano has been running shark-fishing expeditions off the coast of Miami for 40 years. His first was in 1976, shortly after the release of Jaws, and he estimates he’s caught more than 20,000 sharks since. The 65-year-old former fireman and policeman is famous on...
In a recent study published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, 27 percent of roughly 4,000 men polled were dissatisfied with the size or shape of their penis. The study also noted that those men who were dissatisfied were less sexually active than those who were...
It’s both clichéd and pretentious to trot out a Benjamin Franklin quote at the start of an article, but here it comes anyway: “There are three things extremely hard: Steel, a diamond and to know one’s self.” In Franklin’s day, displaying a crushing lack of self-awareness in...
No fewer than six of the last nine covers of Men’s Health have featured cavernous, chiseled abs — November, October, August, July, May and April. But just as Barbie’s dimensions are wildly unrealistic for a real-life woman (she would stand 6 feet tall and weigh 100 pounds, with 36D...
Last year, more than 300,000 people went into sudden cardiac arrest, during which their heart stops and doesn’t start again without CPR or medical treatment. That is, they died — if just for a few minutes. The survival rate — or, revival rate — is bleak: According to the American Heart Association, only...
For most of us, the eight hours of the day we spend at the office are not our own. They belong to the entity that pays our rent, provides our health care and gives us a reason to go on vacation. It can get existentially exhausting to...
In 2008, the late multimillionaire and creator of Maxim magazine, Felix Dennis, told a reporter from The Times of London that he had once killed a man by pushing him off a cliff in Connecticut. Committing the murder, “Weren’t ’ard,” the Brit boasted in his West London...