?Should the Definition of Micropenis Vary According to Ethnicity?? Pik Shun Cheng and Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Hormone Research, vol. 55, no. 6, 2001, pp. 278?81. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000050013). (Thanks to Len Finegold for bringing this to ur attention.) The authors, who are at University of British Columbia, explain how they explored the question: We determined whether the existing […]
Category: Boys Will Be Boys
Research — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — by and for teenage boys of all ages and genders.
Size and the Poet
?A Penis-shortening Device Described by the 13th Century Poet Rumi,? C.W. Moeliker, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36(6): 767, December 2007. (http://www.springerlink.com/content/r647773642352571) (Note: The author won the 2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize for a study, unrelated to this subject, involving homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.) (That?s an excerpt from the article ?Boys Will Be Boys,? […]
Boys will be boys
The “Boys Will Be Boys” column in the March/April 2005 issue of the magazine presents another health collection of research by and for adolescent males of all ages. One of the highlights this time is a splendid whopping new survey of colorectal foreign objects that appeared, more or less serendipitously, in a hospital in South […]
Egrets: I’ve Had a Few
“Promiscuity in the Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis),” is one of the featured citations in the most recent “Boys Will be Boys” column. N.G. McKilligan’s egret-filled research report was published in the journal The Auk, vol. 107, no. 2, April 1990, pp. 334-41.