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The Male Condition

New Book Slams Caveman Myth
19 February 2008
The notion that a man's sexual promiscuity and physical aggression can be traced to his stone-age ancestors is a myth, argues a new book that examines so-called "caveman mystique"...

Attractiveness Hereditary
21 November 2007
Sexy dads produce sexy sons, at least according to researchers who say that attractiveness is hereditary...

New Method Of Gender Assignment For Intersex Conditions
19 October 2007
The discovery of a stable sex hormone "signature" in human cells could soon help in assigning gender to intersex individuals whose genitals and sex chromosomes don't match...

XYY - One Chromosome Too Many
(6 May 2007)
The belief that males born with an extra Y chromosome are genetically predisposed towards criminality has been around for 50 years. But is XYY really a defect? While it's been shown that XYY males are not the natural born criminals they were thought to be, that doesn't mean that the extra Y chromosome doesn't have an effect...

Intersex - The Third Gender
(3 December 2006)
Every birth announcement card carries the essential information on the front cover. "It's a Boy!" or "It's a Girl!" Defining ourselves as one or the other is what gives us status as humans. We live in a bi-gendered world and you're either pink or you're blue. But what do you call a baby with a vagina and a penis?

When A Penis Becomes A Handicap
(16 October 2006)
Right now we're at a tipping point, and ground-zero is the classroom, where girls are consistently outperforming boys. They score higher in scholastic achievement and are already over-represented in colleges and universities. This is a complete reversal from a generation ago and no one knows why it's happening...

Will Science Make Men An Endangered Species?
(25 September 2006)
We may take out the trash and do the heavy lifting, but in reality we exist solely to pass on our genes. Everything else we do - from building bombs to burping babies - is indirectly in the service of shuffling the genetic deck between generations. But now that scientists have created a viable embryo without sperm, could our time be running out?

A Penis Doesn't Always Make A Man
(18 September 2006)
If it's got a Y chromosome it's a he; end of story, right? Well, not quite. Having a dick and balls is a strong indicator, but it's not absolute. There are two well documented exceptions to the rule: XY chromosome females and XX males. And androgen insensitivity can produce a whole spectrum of gender mash-ups, from males to hermaphrodites to smokin' hot babes...

Choosing Gender: Unnatural Selection?
(11 September 2006)
Gender selection is fraught with controversy, but whatever your ethical stance on the practice, you shouldn't deceive yourself into thinking that it's entirely new. Gender selection has been with us a long, long time...

The Penis Preference
(4 September 2006)
Kick-ass female characters are everywhere these days. But Buffy, Lara Croft and other icons of grrrl power aren't the celebration of the feminine so much as the celebration of the masculine in the guise of the feminine. After all these years of male diminishment and female ascendance, it's still better to be a boy...