Hormones, fertility, urology and everyday health topics that matter to men at every age.
Testicular pain causes range from minor injuries and infections to genuine urologic emergencies — and knowing which category your pain falls into matters more than most men realize. Any testicular pain that is sudden, severe, or lasts longer than an hour deserves medical attention, according to guidance from the Cleveland Clinic and the NHS. This…
For more than half a century, contraception has been almost entirely a woman’s responsibility. Men have had two reliable options — condoms and vasectomy, as described by Mayo Clinic — and nothing in between. Male birth control research is finally trying to change that. Several approaches are in or approaching human trials: a non-hormonal daily…
Delayed ejaculation treatment is a topic few men talk about openly, yet difficulty reaching climax affects millions of couples and deserves the same serious clinical attention as other sexual health conditions. If you regularly need 30 minutes or more of stimulation to ejaculate, or cannot ejaculate at all despite normal desire and erections, you are…
If you can get a perfectly good erection when you are alone but struggle the moment a partner is involved, you are dealing with one of the most common — and most misunderstood — patterns in men’s sexual health. Situational ED causes are very different from the vascular or hormonal problems behind persistent ED, and…
Weighing circumcision pros and cons? Few questions in men’s health generate as much heat — and as little light — as the effect of circumcision on a man’s sex life. You have probably seen two kinds of claims online: that circumcision ruins sensitivity, or that it changes nothing at all. The honest answer from the…
Few conversations feel harder to start than the one about an enlarged prostate and the bedroom. Yet for millions of couples, this conversation is overdue. Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH, affects roughly half of men in their 50s and the great majority of men by age 80 — and many notice changes in their sex…
Waking up from prostate surgery with no erections is one of the most unsettling moments in a man’s recovery — and one of the most normal. The majority of men experience significant erectile dysfunction after radical prostatectomy, yet many go on to recover meaningful erectile function. Understanding the prostate surgery ed recovery process — what…
If your urologist has scheduled you for a prostate biopsy, one of the questions you may feel awkward asking is also one of the most common: how soon is sex after prostate biopsy safe? You are far from alone in wondering. Clinicians report that intimacy concerns come up in a large share of biopsy consultations,…
When a man’s sex drive fades, the first suspect is almost always testosterone. But the real low libido men causes are far broader than one hormone, and many men have completely normal testosterone when their desire disappears. Understanding low libido men causes correctly matters because the cause determines the fix: stress, poor sleep, medications, relationship…
When a man develops erection problems, he usually looks first at stress, age, or his relationship — the medicine cabinet is the last place he checks. Yet for a meaningful number of men, the answer sits in a prescription bottle taken every morning. The link between statins and erectile dysfunction is one of the most…