Obesity and the secular decline in testosterone
One thing I didn't address in the last post about the decline of everything manly is that obesity is a potential cause of secular declines in testosterone. That's because the…
It’s not just sperm quality decline
Recently Scott Alexander wrote a long piece in his usual fashion Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. He takes the usual meta-skeptical rationalist approach of reviewing…
Does vaping shrink your balls?
Some time ago, someone sent me this: https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1583506701726064651 I know, generic ancient Rome/Greek right-wing back-to-nature type stuff, even hates on deodorants: https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1587965330856493056 "Alright Emil, but these are cheap shots. What…
New paper out: Europeans Have Larger Testes than Sub-Saharan Africans but Lower Testosterone Levels
Together with Ed Dutton and Helmuth Nyborg: Dutton, E., Nyborg, H., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). Europeans Have Larger Testes than Sub-Saharan Africans but Lower Testosterone Levels. Mankind Quarterly,…
Testosterone battles
Back in October Razib Khan had Carole Hooven on his podcast. She's the author of a new popsci book on testosterone: T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates…
Against anogenital distance
Because on this blog we love anything that has to do with calipers. The most obscure weapon in the HBD arsenal? Goes like this: Figure from this 2015 study. Alright,…