The male body, what a wonder of engineering it is. It contains half the genetic information
needed to reproduce and continue civilization; it can produce milk but has useless nipples,
and it has the uncanny ability to get an erection at the absolute worst of times.
Prepare to be fascinated. 50.
Male fetuses actually get erections while they are in the womb, and while no one can
be absolutely sure why that happens, some reports state that it’s just to keep the thing healthy.
49. Men also have G-spot, you can find it
by pressing on your prostate. For reference that’s about two inches from the entrance of your anus.
48. Men over 50 might start
growing breasts. This is due to his anomalous hormone production that happens as we age.
47. It differs from man to man but in general,
a healthy guy will ejaculate 40 million sperm in one go. Still, a man could produce anything up to
200 million sperm each time. You heard that right- that’s more people than live in most countries.
46. According to one study that was published in
the US National Institutes of Health, the member of an American male had an average size of 5.1
to 5.5 inches when fully erect (12.95-13.97 cm). The study didn’t mention how it got its volunteers
stimulated in order to measure them at their fullest, but it did confirm the sizes were
professionally measured, not self-reported, so there was no room for the men to lie.
45.
Nationality doesn’t impact the size of your member. The conclusion in one study consisting of
over 15,000 men from across the world was that the average penis was 5.17 inches (13.12 cm). Genetic
factors have a much bigger influence according to a paper by the Nature journal.
But does size even matter? 44.
Studies have shown that if it is a one-night thing, women on average like a larger phallus with
research showing that prefer a penis around 6.3 inches (16cm) in length and 4.8 inches (12.2cm)
around, which as you know is larger than the average. But did size correlate with pleasure?
We also looked at anecdotal accounts from women and as you’d expect, every woman had her
unique take on the penis. The consensus was that there had to be a balance, not too long and not
too short with one woman saying: “He had these moves that compensated for his size. Small penises
aren't bad at all if the man knows how to use it.” Ok, one last thing about your precious product
down there. 43.
We've all heard about growers versus showers, but is there any truth to it? A study by Healthline
showed that 26 percent of men are growers with the rest being showers. This is because of a person to
person difference in how much collagen there is in the penis, which is genetic. The amount of
collagen may mean you’re a grower or shower. The amount of blood flow may also make a difference.
What’s hilarious is that at the bottom of the article, Healthline explained how men can measure
their penis – from the base of the shaft, of course. But they also gave this important bit
of advice: “Just don’t do it in public.” Now a special mention not to the penis,
but the bulge. 42.
Throughout history there has been a preference for a smaller penis, but in other cultures,
a big one was a sign of greater manhood. For example, in Norse mythology,
there is a proud reference to a man whose Bratwurst is almost as big as a horse’s.
But we found something a bit more amusing. That was the fact that at
the time of the European Renaissance some guys showed a lot more than they actually
had. They wore something called a codpiece to make their package look more prominent.
Ok, now for some fast-fire facts. 41.
Men typically have darker hair than women, with the reason being their higher levels of melanin.
40. The American Academy of Sleep
Medicine said around 40 percent of men are chronic snorers, but only 24 percent of women habitually
make that noise from hell. 39.
You might have heard that if he has large feet then his member will be large, too,
but this is just another myth in a long list of myths when it comes to the penis.
38. Semen is not just
a load of sperm. According to one science website, it also contains, “Citric acid, free amino acids,
fructose, enzymes, phosphorylcholine, prostaglandin, potassium, and zinc.”
37. Men tend to have a faster metabolism
due to the fact that they usually have more muscle than women. That means even if they’re just
sitting around, they’ll be burning more calories. But are men’s and women’s brains different?
36. If you say that
men and women have different brains, you run the risk of being accused of “neuro­sexism”. We don’t
want that to happen to us, but we did read some scientific articles that told us that some parts
of the brain might be different in the sexes. Some research says because of the different
brain structures, men might be better on average at completing spatial and motor tasks. At the same
time, though, women might be better at learning languages and expressing emotions. Remember,
though, that not all scientists agree on this. 35.
On average, a man might have three to five erections every night while he is sleeping,
and some of the erections may last as long as 30 minutes. This might have nothing to do with a wet
dream or the fact he’s just cozied up closer to his lover. It’s a natural phenomenon that
scientists call, “nocturnal penile tumescence”. We imagine some of you guys out there have on
occasions woken up in the morning and felt something very stiff down there. Or perhaps,
your girlfriend has stood back in shock and said, “Oh dear,
whatever could that be in your pajama pocket.” Morning wood is absolutely normal. The reason
it happens is down to something called the parasympathetic nervous system. It can be
stimulated at night since it doesn’t switch off during sleep. But why it happens during the night
is something science isn’t so sure about. 34.
If you don’t get any stiffies throughout the night there might be a problem. In fact,
one study said that 52 percent of grown men experience some kind of erectile dysfunction,
with it happening more when men pass the age of 40. Still, a study published in the Journal of
Sexual Medicine said 26 percent of men under 40 also experience erectile dysfunction.
The main culprits are booze and drugs in the short term, but in the longer-term, diabetes,
high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, obesity, depression,
and anxiety can all affect the ability to make the man stand to attention and stay that way for
a useful amount of time. 33.
In a study titled “Prevalence of Pubic Hair Grooming–Related Injuries,”
it was said that 25 percent of groomers reported an injury, but this study also
included female groomers. How bad can the injury be?
32. The absolute worst thing we could
find related to cutting and shaving injuries down there was something called “Fournier gangrene.”
Simply put, if there really was hell in this world, then this disease would be Satan’s proudest
achievement. It is described as a “necrotic infection of the scrotum” or “catastrophic
gangrene of the penis” and in some cases, it has happened when someone has nicked their scrotum
while grooming. Thankfully, it is very rare. Amen to that.
31.
A gastroenterologist working at Princeton named Anish Sheth wrote an entire book on poo,
from what the colors mean to how solid they are. He also wrote about something he called
“poo-phoria” which is when a person has an orgasm while dropping the kids off at the pool.
He said for some people it can be like having a religious experience due to it feeling so good.
He said that this kind of “stool high” is related to the vagus nerve being stimulated,
adding, “The stool high is relatively safe, but can become an addiction for some.”
30. Did you
know that men have thicker skin than women? They do, and that’s because of testosterone. In fact,
one study showed that on average men had 10 to 20 percent thicker skin. This can be good
news to some vain men, because this is one reason why many healthy men don’t age as fast as women.
How you age, though, is obviously partly determined by your genes and more importantly,
all the environmental factors that the skin experiences over the years.
Ok, now we’ll settle an argument between you and your partner, if you’re in a male-female
relationship that is. 29.
Have you ever been in a room with someone of the opposite sex and one of you is arguing
that it’s too warm or too cold but you are wearing similar types of clothes?
One reason for that is that men are generally warmer than women. One doctor explained it like
this, “Since women have a lower metabolic rate, they tend to produce less heat than
men do, which makes them feel colder.” Sometimes the difference is quite startling,
with one health website writing, “Some studies have shown that while men feel
comfortable in rooms with the thermostat set at 72 degrees, women tend to feel comfortable
in rooms with the thermostat set at 77.” Now we’ll ask the question, what on Earth is
that thing some people call man-flu? 28.
According to an article in the British Medical Journal,
some scientists believe that man-flu is nothing but a man whining. The paper said, “Despite the
universally high incidence and prevalence of viral respiratory illnesses, no scientific
review has examined whether the term ‘man flu’ is appropriately defined or just an ingrained
pejorative term with no scientific basis.” It’s a long paper, but the upshot was that
a man’s antibody response to flu could be inferior to a woman’s. The paper also
highlighted the fact that more men end up in the hospital with the flu and their bout
of the sickness on average lasts longer. This is ongoing research, but there is a possibility
that the man is not a wimp and may actually be experiencing a higher level of suffering.
Now let’s talk about man nips. 27.
Men in theory can produce milk. That’s because their bodies make the hormones oxytocin
and prolactin, which are responsible for milk production. Men also have milk ducts, so milk
can in theory come out. That means that given the right circumstances, a man could breastfeed.
In fact, this is something recorded throughout history. Even the Greek philosopher named
Aristotle said men could produce milk if they squeezed their breasts enough. Later in the 19th
century a book called “Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine” talked about some real-life cases of
men giving their own milk to their babies, although these cases were not verified.
It could, as we said, in theory happen, but the man’s hormones levels would have to be through
the roof. 26.
You might also not know that for a time a young male might have female-looking
breasts. A researcher interviewed by the Scientific American said,
“Actually a significant number of boys around the age of puberty do develop breasts,
so the tissue is there, but it regresses.” It’s a condition called gynaecomastia and
is related to a hormone imbalance. The good news is that things usually
balance and the boy-breasts go. That’s not always the case,
though. A man named Merle Yost wrote a book about growing up with breasts where he recounted
his years of bullying at school and his final jump to get breast reduction surgery at age 33
25. In general,
men have less body fat than women. It’s thought the reason for women having
more body fat is an evolutionary adaptation related to them being able to have children.
24. A paper published
in the US National Institutes of Health had this to say about male and female natural differences,
“The result showed that the male teeth were consistently larger than the female teeth.”
But why? 23.
It’s not always the case, but it’s thought that it has something to do with men having more
dentine in the crowns of their teeth. Dentine is one of the tissues that make up a tooth.
The other parts are enamel, cementum, and pulp. Now let’s try and settle an age-old debate on pain
thresholds. Do men feel more pain than women? 22.
You might have heard this before, with people telling you that a woman has a higher threshold
for pain due to the fact she’s evolved to go through childbirth. The thing is, though,
pain is subjective so it is hard to measure. Still, in studies where men and women have
been subjected to the same pain stimuli, it seems men had a higher pain threshold.
The study is actually more complicated as it doesn’t take into account
that culturally men aer expected to not express pain.
21. You might also have heard
that men have fewer ribs than women? That’s utter balderdash, although some people might not have
the standard 12 pairs of ribs. 20.
In some studies, it is written that women generally find men with high-testosterone
levels more attractive. The good news for all you single guys out there is
that single men tend to have higher levels than men who are already with a partner.
19. A man’s testosterone
levels might go up and down within a day, but some men do have higher levels in general. There’s
also something called “Irritable Male Syndrome”, which could account for men becoming grumpier in
old age because their testosterone levels drop. But as you’ll now see, men can get very old and
still do their business on the bed. 18.
There’s no age limit for men for being able to produce sperm to help make a baby. In 2010, it was
reported that a guy in India named Ramajit Raghav had just had a kid. He was 94. He didn’t give up,
either, having another child just two years later. When asked about his secret, he told the British
media, “I have been a vegetarian all my life, and I credit my stamina and virility to my diet
of vegetables and grains. Being a vegetarian is the secret to my strength and good health.”
He died in 2020 aged 104. 17.
Still, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine says male sperm is of a higher quality
when the men are under 40. In fact, sperm donors are usually asked to be under that age.
16. This is one reason why when there
is an age gap in a male-to-female relationship the older person is more often the man. Sure,
there are lots of things to take into account, such as the woman liking a settled down man who
is more likely to be faithful, have money, etc, but one simple fact is some men like
younger women because a younger woman from an evolutionary perspective can still procreate.
15. Going bald might be some
men’s worst nightmare, but is it really that bad? Many studies have shown that women like bald men.
Trust us, when it comes to being attractive there are many things that come before your hair. Plus,
if you are so insecure and lacking in confidence, well, she might think you’re too vain or too weak.
In one study, it showed 44 percent of women were attracted to bald men, but those women
were aged 35 to 44. Just 19 percent of women aged 18 to 24 liked bald guys. Some studies have shown
that some women perceive bald men as being more dominant, more masculine and more successful.
14. Studies have
shown that half of all men will show some amount of male pattern baldness by the time they are 50.
Usually, it is down to genetics and is related to sex hormones called androgens.
13. As we said, this usually
starts happening as a man matures, but there are some cases of teenagers going bald naturally.
The Guardian talked to a guy named Sam Wolfson. He said he was 16 when his hair started thinning
and then by the time he was in his early twenties he only had some wispy
fuzz on top and two bushes at the sides. That’s a bit sad, so let’s talk about
orgasms again. 12.
The male orgasm is different from a woman’s. Guys shoot their load and it seems after that
someone has taken all the air out of them, like they’re a sex doll that’s just been burst. Women,
though, have longer orgasms, and they are often ready to go again right away.
Teen males tend to have more forceful ejaculations, so it’s in these years when
a guy might fire someplace where he never thought he could reach.
What usually comes out is 2–5 cubic centimeters of sperm, about enough to fill a teaspoon at 5CCs.
As for how much in one sitting, it depends on many things, such as genetics, mood, prior absence from
ejaculating, lifestyle, and general health. In terms of how many rounds men can go, young
folks could possibly squeeze out five sessions, but older people would likely not go that far.
11. With the male orgasm, there is something
often called “the point of no return.” This is called ejaculatory inevitability and it means
the semen has already started making its way to the urethra and is about to experience lift-off.
At this point, there will be a series of contractions of the penile muscles
in the location of the base of the anus. The pelvis may also start to thrust. Those
nerves that have caused the contractions send messages to the brain and everything feels good.
10. Before all that happens, a man will
need to be aroused. He might perceive a feeling, maybe someone touching his penis, but it could
also be a sight, such as looking at the picture of a naked woman. Then messages are sent through his
spinal cord, and this makes his member stiffen. During this period he may also let out some liquid
from his urethra. This is called pre-ejaculatory fluid and it’s there to affect the PH balance in
the urethra. This helps the survival of the sperm to come, but it doesn’t contain sperm itself.
Once the job is done, the male goes through what scientists called a refractory period. That’s
basically downtime before he is ready to orgasm again. In a young man it could be just 10 minutes,
but in an older guy, it will usually be hours. 9.
Your sperm needs your semen – remember, the whole bundle – to get to the egg. Without the rest of
the ingredients it wouldn’t get very far at all. But if sperm does take off, it can live inside
the woman for up to around five days. If it lands somewhere it isn’t intended, well it can only live
for a few minutes. 8.
If you’re wondering if you could take a look at sperm, you can’t. It’s about 1/500ths of an inch
long, which is around 10,000 times smaller than the egg it wants to meet. Under a microscope,
the sperm meeting the egg looks like a tiny spacecraft landing on a vast planet.
7. When a woman is ovulating,
men can actually pick up on that just by smelling her. Ovulation is when a woman’s egg has matured
and so has been sent off by the ovary and down the fallopian tubes where it can wait for one of those
lucky sperms to make contact. 6.
Ok, so what would you think if you read this start to a research paper:
“Individuals in some species prefer mates carrying dissimilar genes at the major histocompatibility
complex (MHC), which may function to increase the MHC or overall heterozygosity of progeny.”
Yep, that’s a bit of a mouthful. What the paper is saying is that women can detect
dissimilar genes in men, so by choosing them, their offspring might be healthier. We bet
you never thought about that as you moved your stool in the pub closer to a woman.
But it gets even more complex. 5.
Talking to CNN, a scientist said that the egg itself might be able to attract the
right kind of sperm. He said, “Human eggs release chemicals called chemoattractants,
which leave a sort of chemical breadcrumb trail that sperm use to find unfertilized eggs.”
Let’s now move away from sperm. 4.
Did you know that guys, in general, see fewer shades of color? We will let a scientist explain
why. She said, “This is because retinal cones are on the X chromosome, which men only have one of.
Men, however, have more testosterone in their visual cortexes, meaning they sense brightness
better than women.” 3.
Something you probably thought we would have talked about already
is the male nipple. What’s the point in it? The reason men have nipples is that when the
embryo is forming, males and females are pretty much the same. They share the same blueprint,
which is the reason all humans look alike in terms of basic structure.
But after around seven weeks of gestation, the gene of the Y chromosome makes some changes and
the testes start to form. It is then that the little bundle of blood starts producing
testosterone, but that doesn’t mean the nipples have to go. What would be the point in losing
them? They aren’t doing anyone any harm. 2.
Another thing we men might not need is that thing we call the foreskin. After all, in some cultures,
they get rid of it. Is that the right thing to do? In a paper called “Vital or vestigial? The
foreskin has its fans and foes”, the writer cites some scientists who have
called the foreskin the “floppy disk of the male anatomy”, meaning it is no longer needed.
If you think about it, men a very long time ago might have walked around with the penis
hanging out, and that could mean some damage being caused to his Jonah Hill. This is really
bad news in evolutionary terms, because the only real reason we are here is to make other people.
So, the foreskin acted as a protective shield. It can also act as a lubricant, back then and now.
1. This is
personal. When this writer was a kid he kept hearing boys talk about their balls dropping,
as if one day those things just went “plop!” and fell down. It never happened,
but his balls looked fine as they were. Still, he was concerned. For many kids
waiting for their balls to drop it can be quite worrying if nothing seems to be happening.
Actually, there is no sudden drop at all when the child has already grown. Balls don’t really
drop. They are tight to the body for sure when men are younger, and then when the boy matures and he
produces more testosterone, his balls get larger. It might seem like they are lower at this point.
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