People are always asking themselves and their health care providers what is normal and what is abnormal when it comes to symptoms in the genital area. When to worry and when not to worry—that is the question. This article describes common symptoms in the genital area as well as some possible causes of those symptoms; [...]

“I could never have made this change or taken the cut in salary if my wife hadn’t been working,” said lawyer Bob S. about his mid-life shift. “So in my case women’s lib has turned into men’s lib—in spades!”

Most men who change direction in their middle years, are equally emphatic- about the importance of having [...]

It is not just a clash of values or changing social mores that account for the difficulties which arise at this stage of life between fathers and their children, leading eventually to dramatic fights, a breakdown in communication, or even a complete rupture. Much of the antagonism is due to the fact that both the [...]

The Mid-life Transition, Thirty-nine to Forty-Two: Just as some adolescents move into adulthood with relative ease, so some men pass through this period with little apparent Stress. But the Yale group suspect that most men have some difficulty. And those who don’t, or say they don’t, may just be deceiving themselves. For example, several men [...]

Seduced since boyhood by an alluring ode to achievement, this generation of American men were programmed to meet society’s needs by aiming for success. Trained for a world that no longer exists, they discover at mid-life that the values they believed in have cither disappeared or been discredited: Job security is a thing of the [...]

Now there is a new way to look at the strange things happening to mid-life men: not as symptoms of something wrong, but as signs of something right and normal and necessary.

Something promising and productive.

We have always assumed that something must be wrong! when a grown man starts making unexpected changes on asking basic questions, [...]

Nursing homes and other institutions are rarely a choice, but in most cases a necessity. Unfortunately, many are entirely unsatisfactory and, like other institutions, tend to dehumanize the inmates. Many seem geared for the profit of the proprietor and the convenience of the staff rather than for the benefit of the inhabitants. In some, rigid [...]

If his problem is sexual, particularly if he is concerned that he is, or will become, impotent, and sees this as a loss of his masculinity, he needs help. He does not need hormones, but he does need counselling, together with his partner. The aphorism that ‘in a sexual problem there is no uninvolved partner’ [...]

Chancroid should be mentioned, although this sexually transmitted disease is unusual in temperate climates. It is caused by a small organism which infects a man’s penis or a woman’s vulva. Within 3 to 7 days of having sexual intercourse with an infected partner, one or more small, painful pimples appear on the man’s penis, usually [...]

Most impotent men have no disease and are not taking any drugs. They fail to obtain or sustain an erection for psychological reasons, which induce the brain to send messages to the spinal cord inhibiting the erection. In many cases, the impotence is due to guilt or anxiety about sex, which may have originated in [...]