Many theorists view sexual orientation as the result of positive and negative reinforcements for past sexual experiences. Thus, it has frequently been assumed that prehomosexual and preheterosexual boys have quite different kinds of childhood and adolescent sexual experiences. In this view, if a boy has gratifying, recurrent sexual experiences with other males, he would be [...]

Are you going to drop dead from a sudden heart attack? Heart disease is the biggest killer of Australian men, and 25 per cent of those who die from it do so unexpectedly. These men, most of whom are middle-aged, have never had any cause to worry about their hearts. Many believe they are fit [...]

Even if you are one of those men who require little sleep a night, when it comes to jet lag you cannot beat your body clock. But you can do several things to persuade it that the time dislocation is not so bad. There are two basic approaches. The first is to minimise sleep loss [...]

A new fear is taking hold of middle-aged men. Twenty years ago men in their middle years worried about cancer. Cancer was just beginning to be openly discussed in the media and anxiety about it was high. Then about 5 years ago Alzheimer’s began to receive unprecedented publicity and they worried they were getting that [...]

Every day dozens of Australian men unwittingly step onto the slippery slope of prostate cancer investigation. They do this through ignorance. They submit themselves to a blood test without understanding where it may lead and without taking steps to minimise their chance of a false result. As a consequence, many find themselves halfway down the [...]

In 1997, a 57-year-old teacher took leave from his school and booked into hospital to have his cancerous prostate removed. Afterwards, through diligent exercising, he overcame incontinence but found he was hopelessly impotent. ‘I’ve got a very attractive wile and I just didn’t want to forgo that,’ he says. ‘We’ve been married 23 years and [...]