Men's Health Books

The above reviewer doesn't like the book because he doesn't like what the author concludes can or can't be done to boost testosterone. I like this book for that reason-- because it's honest and accurate medical information. Why read a book just because you like what it's saying, even if the information is inaccurate? This book is clear and informative.

The book doesn't paint a pretty picture if you want to raise your testosterone level. He sights quite a few studies that according to the author do nothing to raise your tes level. Other books on this subject find studies that do do things for your tes level and it seems this author IS talking about the same studies as the other books. His favorite saying about these studies is "no conclusive proof".

Personally, I didn't read this book to basically have the only recommendation to do three types of workout and that will cure my problem. Fact is that I already do two types of his recommended workouts and really don't feel that adding the third will do that much.

There is other much more positive reads out there.

Too often, biased people want to insist that all the gays are white and all the people of color are straight. Too often, any study of gays focuses on New York City and San Francisco, but nowhere else. Too often, "people of color" focuses on Blacks only, or Blacks and Latinos only. This study is a nice retreat from those problems. It is a multi-city study. It speaks of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans.

I'm glad it exists, but it is just a dry policy study. The book has no photos and is just a power point lecture put in text form.

Too many, this also feels terribly dated. While the study strongly emphasizes that many men who kick it with men don't identify as gay or bisexual, it never uses the new term "the down low." Further, I think this study was printed before more effective AIDS drugs called HAART therapy were produced. Luckily, I think this study has an awesome update in the studies compiled in the book by Sana Loue.

This author is juggling a lot of JUGS, if you know what I mean. He's trying to speak to males who "develop" when they are young and when they are old; those who want their endowments chopped off and those who embrace them; those who are going through a phase and those who will be endowed forever without surgery. He's really trying to address the countless people who have their own myriad perspectives. I thank him for trying to embrace all readers, but this book does have a scant, scrapbook-ish feel that many serious readers may not like. This book is filled with males who wear sweaters to hide their endowments, but for me, sweaters are what make them stand out, so I wear vests for concealment. This book also quotes countless men who say they avoid romantic unions because they don't want others to see their set-up, but I would think moobs are not a reason to actively choose celibacy. Mr. Happy Downstairs still has his needs and priorities.

One of the author's largest goals is to tell moob males that they are not alone. Like a lot of LGBT youth in the closet have valiantly testified, moob males think it's only them. I feel that same way too. One thin guy in junior high had them and one of the men shown in prison in the film "Slam" had them, but I've never seen any other male besides myself with them. Then again, the author says 90% of other people don't notice and many moobs don't last forever. But if a teenaged male had bigger-than-norm nipples or a senior citizen had sagging pecks, I would not include them with us stand-out moob men. I really wish this book could have had a historical section speaking about famous men and how they addressed their moobs.

Again, the book emphasizes, "You are not alone." With speak of "A-levels" and "mates," the interviewees for this book are not all Americans. That's great that this book gives space to English-speaking moob men across the globe. However, when one has to find a person all the way in other countries to come out as a moob man, it breaks the idea that moob males are everywhere. Also, in nations with universal healthcare, perhaps surgery would be covered or given at a reduced price.

Speaking of price, the author lists all kinds of tricks to get insurance to cover the surgery, but I get the sense that if a male wants it, he's going to have to cough up loot for the operation. The author never says how much it costs and I imagine that many men would give up the idea of surgery if it were too expensive. I wish the author would have said more about Klinefelter's Syndrome as well.

This book is not going to win any awards. Still, I'm glad someone made a book about a matter that is very important to us males that have moobs. This book is a good starting place for males of our kind. The book tries to speak to parents, partners, and coaches of moob males, but I think a moob male might be insulted if he got this book as a gift or saw a loved one reading it and staring in his direction. Perhaps, I should applaud the book for bringing up something that so many people, even men in the group, want to keep hidden or silent.

I liked this book because the author fused together a successful combination of helpful advice and his own personal experiences. Those triumphs and failures are what made the advice believable.
I think that just about anyone who's dating could interpret this to their gender and use it successfully.
Kudos to the author for pointing out behavior signals, verbal cues, body language, all things a lot of people tend to ignore.

Good job!

Too many anthologies depend on conferences in which you may get too many papers on subissue X and not enough on subissue Y. I usually call this "Catch as catch can." This book is the opposite. It has very thoughtful and needed chapters on this topic. Some readers may also like the interdisciplinary character of this text: It speaks of law, history, science, etc.

Nevertheless, some of the articles are dated. The editors never say whether they support or oppose bathhouses. Yes, this may mean they want readers to come to their own conclusions, but it also may suggest that they could bring up topics but not analyze them deeply themselves. Perhaps the authors were too afraid to upset the zealous individuals divided over this issue.

Given the recent controversies surrounding Larry Craig, Bob Allen, Jim McGreevey, and many others, this book is highly relevant. Whether communities are gay-friendly or homophobic, some men are kicking it with other men outside of their own houses. Some business owners and activists know there will always be a clientele for this environment. This issue, no matter your views on it, says a lot about the nation and sexual matters. Some may really enjoy this text.

I do not know where Amazon gets the descriptions they use, but this book has nothing on small pox, or on Soviet bio-weapons, or on anthrax, or rogue diseases or anything by Shnayerson and Plotkin. This book is 290 pages but because the Adrenaline Series has apparently changed format, it is smaller and the type coverage on the page is half an inch thinner than usual, so if published in the old format, this would be a thinner book. There are 11 selections in the book, and the strongest include an interesting story about treating Ebola in Africa, a very intersting piece on diagnosing a case of flesh-eating bacteria, good writing on salmonella and food poisoning (scary stuff - I may never eat again), and a story of tracking a case of Lassa Fever from Chicago back to Africa. Fortune Magazine weighs in with a pretty interesting story of what AIDS is doing to the economy of South Africa. But there are some weak entries that bog it down - a dull piece on the bubonic plague and a very academic study of how malaria is transmitted by mosquito. The excerpt on Mad Cow is about how it was first discovered over 40 years ago in New Guinea - slow and not too interesting. The article about AIDS is a very philosophical and sentimental journal written by a dying man - and could have been written as is no matter what he was dying of. And the short fiction by Poe is just wasted space. So bottom line - about half the book is really gripping, and half had me wanting to skip ahead. I think it would have been a stronger collection if a few of the advertised selections had been used. If diseases interest you this may be a good sampler, but if that isn't your passion you probably could pass on this book.

Honest to God I picked the book by mistake but could not stop listening to it. It teaches you some great lessons about men and how they are aroused. More... I cannot say just read it if you like.

An American gay man dabbling in anthropology goes to the Yucatan to study how people there are living with HIV/AIDS and how doctors are trying to fight the disease. There have been several books written on U.S. Latinos and their struggles against the epidemic, but this is the first I've found that dealt with Native peoples living in Latin America. I hope that more authors produce books like this exploring different regions in the world.

People and cultures are so similar, yet so different. In this study, epidemiologists fall into addressing AIDS. The same happened with Dr. Abraham Verghese in Tennessee, as covered by his monograph "My Own Country." In this book, an HIV-positive nurse tried to say he got the virus from a prick in the hospital. Another hospital worker states, "If that were true, you'd be the first case of that in Mexico, and people may trust nurses less because of it." The aforementioned nurse broke down and cried. In Randy Shilts' "Conduct Unbecoming," he stated that many HIV-infected American soldiers stationed in Germany would say they got it from a (female) prostitute, but experts noted that German prostitutes don't have a high incidence of the virus. Thus, this book and others show, worldwide, how patients try to find any excuse they can to avoid admitting their male sexual contact as cause of their diagnosis.

On the other hand, this region is so different from the U.S. context. The author states that young males kick it with each other, because the culture would not allow young females to be sexually active. Married and other heterosexually-active men have sex with cross-dressing male prostitutes with ease. Thus, any man can catch the virus while it has been contained, more or less, with certain groups of men in the 50 states.

As much as the author laments Mayans who will not be forthcoming with him, he is not forthcoming to some of them. He tries to sanitize why his partner has AIDS, but then wants rural people in an underdeveloped country to tell him all they business. He does not address his white privilege and First World privilege in the slightest.

This book was divided into three, long chapters that did not seem to have a rhyme or reason to them. This almost reminded me of old-timey travelogues: it felt like a LONG diary entry. Students who just want to pull quick numbers about AIDS in the Yucatan will not be able to do so with this book.

The guy's arn't that great looking. Also they use the same guy in a few shots. It's an all right calender for the most part.

The book is well written. I was amazed and freightened at all of the possibilities and the stark truth that was laid out before me.
I learned in about a week after reading the book, that I was calling the book outdated even though it was a relatively new book. It was recomended by a urologist. I was glad that I read the book,it gave me many ways that I may decide to solve my dillema, but reading some newer material made me wonder why I was confused and why I read this book to begin with. The book is well presented, but may have done a disservice in my case.