The case of the month is an actual patient of The Turek Clinic. He was wary as he walked into the office, as though he were doing something illegal. “Doc,” he said, “I’m lined up to do a blind sperm retrieval soon and I keep hearing about this mapping thingie. Not sure what I should...Continue reading
Category: Masculinity
When Sleeping Giants Awake
In the Dune miniseries by David Lynch, a tremor felt in the desert of Arrakis usually meant that a huge, quarter-mile-long sand worm would soon surface and inhale acres of sand and anything on it. But these giant creatures, as dominating as they are, were also the only source of the spice mélange, a substance that increased the vitality,...Continue reading
Men and the Flu: Are We Really the Stronger Sex?
The image of the sniffling, sneezing man, wrapped in a bathrobe, and being waited on by his long-suffering-but-perfectly healthy wife is always good for a few chuckles and snorts about how women are actually the stronger sex. And, although most guys don’t want to admit it, when it comes to fighting off colds, the flu,...Continue reading
Buried Penis: When Your Penis Is the Prize
I was recently speaking with a urologist about “radical” circumcision, a procedure where pretty much all of the foreskin is removed from the penis. He told me that the removal of too much skin may lead to a condition called “buried penis.” I never heard of buried penis before, and I was intrigued, so I...Continue reading
ED drugs not working? You may be using them wrong
New research from Spain says many men fail to respond to erectile dysfunction medications correctly. The study was done by Dr. Borja Garcia Gomez at the Hospital Universitario in Madrid and published in the journal Urology. According to the study, 69% of men report that their erectile dysfunction persisted after taking PDE5 inhibitors including Viagra,...Continue reading
Is Normal Always Normal?
What does “normal” really mean? Besides your grandmother, and maybe your parents, do you know anyone who is truly “normal?” There’s a list of normal Hollywood celebrities that includes Matt Damon, Johnny Depp and Jennifer Aniston, but are they really normal? That famous, last-century psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud made a stab at defining normal: “Every normal...Continue reading
My Men’s Movement: 45 Years on the Path
Part 1 My Father, Myself, My Future By Jed Diamond, PhD When I began writing this I realized I couldn’t talk about the Men’s Movement because, for me, my involvement is personal and I don’t seem to fit within any one tributary within the Men’s Movement river. Wikipedia says, “The men’s movement is a social...Continue reading
Fatherhood with Klinefelters
What’s the most common definable cause of azoospermia among infertile men? Here’s a hint: it’s also pretty common in general, occurring in 1/500 male births. Answer: Klinefelter syndrome. Men who have it possess an extra X chromosome in every cell in their bodies. It’s inherited, and about equally so from mothers and fathers. The fact is that most men don’t know about...Continue reading
Prostate Health Index
October marks the beginning of all things pink, as Breast Cancer Awareness month kicks off, but that doesn’t mean we should forget about Prostate Cancer and the awareness we which we raised for it in September. Not only do we want to keep raising awareness throughout the year, but always strive to achieve better standards...Continue reading
The Truth About Vasectomy and Pain
I give a Certificate of Honor to specially recognize every patient on whom I perform a vasectomy. It’s really quite nice and very frameable. “Why?” You ask. Well, it’s not that a no scalpel vasectomy is the most gruesome thing that a man could experience in his life. It’s just that, in the real world of fish stories and Internet tales,...Continue reading