You Being You: How Gender Reassignment Surgery Works

You Being You: How Gender Reassignment Surgery Works

You don’t have to be a penis doc to notice that more and more medical professionals are coming to understand that a person’s sexual characteristics don’t necessarily determine how they self-identify their gender. In fact, The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of...
A Cultural Guide to Circumcision

A Cultural Guide to Circumcision

Aside from vasectomies, there’s another kind of intimate snipping that’s been a topic of much debate over the years: circumcision. For religious and cultural reasons, the decision on whether or not to remove the foreskin of a baby within eight days of his birth is...
A Guide to Lumps and Bumps

A Guide to Lumps and Bumps

If you’ve got junk, you’ve likely experienced at least one moment of fear when you notice it’s got a strange bump or lump. So what’s wrong with your dick?! You can relax! Normal variations in color or benign conditions are common. There are, of course, STDs to watch...
What Does Your Urine Say About You?

What Does Your Urine Say About You?

Did you know that long before there were blood tests to check on a person’s health, the ancients derived most of their information from looking at a person’s urine? In fact, before the snake and staff insignia came to represent medicine, the symbol for doctors was a...