|
Article Excerpt
"I BECAME incredibly moody--well, irritable, really--and would behave in a way most unlike me, flying off the handle at the least provocation. I lost most of my libido and had hot flashes. Flusing of my face occurred at random, but especially at night, leaving the bed and me drenched in sweat and hot and cold at the same time."
We all know the symptoms, but this time there's a twist: The sufferer has a Y chromosome. Jed Diamond, a social worker and men's health expert, insists that more than twenty-five million men in the U.S. between the ages of forty and fifty-five are now going through male menopause.
Diamond argues in his best-selling book Male Menopause, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, that "male menopause is as natural as puberty and impossible to ignore." He notes that some men are even taking hormone replacement (in the form of testosterone patches) to fine-tune what he calls the "Hormonal Symphony of Men."
Fiercely defending their taxonomic turf, Diamond and other proponents of male menopause are careful to distinguish it from the garden-variety midlife crisis that often leads to the purchase of a zippy little sports car or the end of a marriage. Male menopause, they insist, is a genuine physiological change as real as that endured by every fertile woman since Eve who has lived past fifty.
Is masculine "change-of-life" real or is it a pseudo-scientific way to explain away flagging performances in the boardroom or bedroom? Most likely it's a bad case of, well...menopause envy. Women, after all, have radically altered the way they review "the change." No longer merely a prelude to old age, infirmity, and assexuality, it is a pathway to enlightenment, a positive transformation in the life cycle.
A recent book celebrating...
|
|
More articles from Women's Quarterly
Hot flashes.(Independent Women's Forum website)(Brief Article), January 01, 2002
What about Joan? A fierce woman in combat? Medieval gender bender? San..., January 01, 2002
Feminists go to war: Christine Stolba says feminists are between a roc..., January 01, 2002
Women and war: What the polls show. (Poll-Pourri).(Polling Data)(Brief..., January 01, 2002
The church of global warming: Jane S. Shaw is hot on the trail of envi..., January 01, 2002
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|
