Some of you may be old enough to remember the show, The Six Million Dollar Man, with Lee Majors. It was about a man who had been severely injured but was rebuilt with futuristic body parts that enabled him to perform superhuman feats.
The funny thing is that now, such rebuilding is possible in some ways. We have great technology that is being applied to artificial limbs, cochlear implants that can help some people hear – there is a lot of research going on to help people live their lives as they did before they were injured. And now, we may …read more

Sperm killers – fact or fiction….
Urban myths and old wives tales are plentiful, especially when it comes to infertility and pregnancy. To help you out on what’s fact or fiction when it comes to the quantity and quality of sperm, ABC has put together this list of 11 Sperm Killing Suspects, covering everything from boxers or briefs to laptops and cellphones.
Food or Sex?
This interesting study from Australia indicates that the majority of men prefer the hamburger over a roll in the sack. Yes, really. Turns out that the old saying ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ …read more

What’s a medical devices company, that promotes itself as selling  the world’s number one penis extender,  to do when presented with an order for a 18 carat gold penis extender worth nearly 50,000 dollars?
They could ignore it or they could find a custom jeweler to work on the project with them. 
X4 Labs, the company faced with this dilemma,  choose to find a jeweler and start working on this somewhat unique request.
Apparently the client, a Saudi businessman living in Jeddah,  had a legitimate practical reason for requesting a sold gold version – he claimed to have severe skin allergy to stainless steel.
But by …read more

It’s starting to look like a injectable form of birth control for men might just be possible in the future. A new study by Chinese researchers at the National Research for Family Center in Beijing has been focusing on the effectiveness of a  monthly testosterone-based injection for men. And the results are promising with a 99 percent success rate..
For the study,  a 1000 healthy and fertile men between 20 and 45 were given monthly injections of  500mg of testosterone undecanoate in tea seed oil for 30 months. This testosterone-based product caused the disruption of sperm production and hence prevented reproduction.
Better …read more

Need some light reading for the weekend?
Well, ScientificAmerican.com has a couple of articles that might just do the trick. Focusing on a specific part of the human anatomy, they will either entertain, inform, or possibly simply irritate you.
The first, The Secret of the Phallus, starts out with a great hook  “…If you’ve ever had a good, long look at the human phallus, whether yours or someone else’s, you’ve probably scratched your head over such a peculiarly shaped device.”  and then continues on to discuss the research of evolutionary psychologists such as Gordon Gallup who studies the design and evolution of …read more

Great news for guys with erectile dysfunction, especially those who get little to no benefit from Viagra. There is new hope on the horizon  -  rotten eggs. Seems a new study by Italian researchers have determined that hydrogen sulphide, the gas arising from rotten eggs, encourages arousal in men. Apparently minute amounts of this gas released by key nerve cells during arousal helps control and sustain an erection.
According to researcher Professor Cirino, of the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, this discovery should make it possible “…in future to develop drugs that either deliver hydrogen sulphide or that control …read more

Did you know that in the United States alone, there are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases diagnosed each year?
Scary numbers.
But most people will look at those numbers and say, ‘yeah, but that won’t happen to me. I’m safe. My behavior is not risky.”
Unfortunately, it could easily happen to you. All it really takes to get a sexually transmitted disease is one instance of unprotected sex.
Which is why I suggest that anyone who is sexually active or intending to become sexually active read Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STD’s by Jill Grimes MD.
It’s an easy to read …read more

Did you know that one man in 10 will suffer from impotence, also known as erectile dysfunction, at some stage in their life?
But according to a new study, all guys need to do to reduce the risk of them suffering from this infliction is to get out of the house and into the garden.
Sounds pretty simple. According to the researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, who studied 674 guys aged 45 to 60, half an hour of gardening five days of week can make all the difference, reducing the risk of impotence by around 38%.
Put a bit more sweat …read more

First there was Live Blogging the Vascetomy Chronicles…

nurse: have you shaved your scrotum?
uh, nope, no one told me to
Now there is kevsnip, a live twitter account of having a Vasectomy…

the very first pre-op stage of Operation Chop is complete at 18 hours before Snip time. Hair today, gone tomorrow.

Let’s just hope that no one plans on video blogging their vasectomy experience.
(hat tip to KevinMD.com)
 
 
 

Today is the 20th anniversary of the very first World AIDS Day held on 1st December 1988.
Here’s this year’s World AIDS Day Message from UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot…