5 Ways Cuddling Makes Us Healthier

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Touch releases oxytocin, which makes us feel better. But can hugging make us better human beings?

Preventing Osteoporosis: a Man’s Concern

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Men are at risk for osteoporosis too–Dr. Stephen Petteruti summarizes what you need to know to keep your spine healthy as you age.

7 Surprising Things That Sex Cures

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Get down and get rid of these symptoms!

A Man’s Guide to Understanding Menopause

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Dr. Stephen Petteruti explains how understanding menopause can help prevent couples from simply toddling off into old age but instead, embracing it.

Yoga Pants Nation

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Yoga pants aren’t just for the yoga studio anymore. And if the trend doesn’t die soon, Nathan Graziano may be doomed.

Beware the Fat-Fearing-Fanatics

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Natalie Gold is tired of listening to the same old myths about overweight people.

The Smoking Ruins of Your Sexual-Romantic Life

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Life with children calls for compromises, but it can’t keep you from making love.

My Dad Won’t Stop Crying: Is Male Menopause Real?

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After a father confesses that he can’t stop crying, a daughter does a little research on male menopause.

Why Americans Are So Fat

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The gluttony of food manufacturers is to blame for the obesity crisis, not individual eaters.

Changing Seasons Now; Snow, Soon

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“We’ve talked about these eggs as if they are future children, and not just the possibility of future children.” Will Henderson writes in the journal he kept for his child-to-be.

8 Myths About Sex Differences

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Agustín Fuentes points out that when it comes to men and women, what “everyone knows” isn’t what science shows.

World Peace, Part 1

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ~~ Marianne Williamson

10 Things Every New Father Should Know

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The “Love, Recorded” guide to being a new daddy.

Daughters Avoid Dads When Most Fertile

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Don’t, like, take it personally, dads. It’s just, like, our girl time.

Cuddle Hormone Affects Dads Too

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On Friday we wrote about oxytocin, the “hormone of love” that plays a key role in mother-baby bonding and heightened empathy in men. New research has found that the level of cuddle hormone in men spikes in the weeks just after their baby is born.