Marketing of Men's Health Knowledge

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Men get a raw deal with the marketing of knowledge about health. Women? They get screened for breast cancer, cervical cancer, they have blokes put on miners' helmets and climb inside them with safety lamps and picks and shovels. But we blokes get... Nothing.

A friend blogged the other day about living in France and being checked for bowel cancer as soon as you hit 50. That got me to thinking. I posted a comment on his blog about my thinking, and then it struck me. He has two loyal readers. I have two loyal readers. between us we can reach four readers, which is, as we know, half the male population of the world.

Ladies, gentlemen too, come to that, if you care about your partner, this is for you, too. If he's too much of a macho prat to check, tie him to the bed (he'll think good times are coming) and then check him out.

Men can get breast cancer.

Yes, you heard.

Now it's a lot harder to clamp a man's breast in a vice and take an x ray than it is to do a woman's, but you can check for lumps. And you can take lumps to the doctor. That's still inside the breast, of course.

Men get testicular cancer. It's not hard to examine for, all you have to do is fondle the bollocks when the scrotum's hanging loose. Anything odd, anything present on one that's absent on the other, any odd heat or coldness, take your scrotum to the quack and have him have a fondle too.

Are you going to be embarrassed? The first time you get your tackle groped well, just maybe a little. Get over it. Would a painful death be better? Will you get erect? Not a hope in hell, however attractive the doctor is. More likely you'll shrink away to pre-puberty size! Get over it.

Men get prostate cancer. "But that's yucky, isn't it? I mean that means a doctor has to poke his finger up my arsehole. That's for things that come out, nothing goes in!"

Your great grandma wasn't that squeamish. When stuff went wrong down there (I do hate that phrase!) she used to get the enema kit out of the bathroom cupboard and sluice her kids out. The bottom held no fears for her, and why should it for you? Get over it! Didn't you ever play doctors and nurses?

Right. First the prostate's inside. It's not really for amateur diagnosis because you can't tell, yourself, if it's abnormal. So yes, if you're worried, you are going to have a medic have a firkle about inside your bottom. It can be pleasurable, too. Watch the sperm donation scene in Road Trip! But that's by the by.

If you have trouble starting peeing, or have an unusually lowered pee rate, or you have never quite finished peeing, you either have a bladder infection or something astray with the prostate. Damp underwear on a bloke and a whiff of pee means "get the prostate checked out now." A sudden need to pee while standing in the cold, like when you fill your car's tank (with fuel, dummy!) means you need to get your prostate checked now.

Why do we blokes leave things for so long that, when we get to the doctor, we're terminally ill?

If this simple article strikes a note with you, spread it far and wide. Show the man in your life. Examine yourself, and get things checked. Doctors like seeing healthy people who want to make sure they stay that way.

And your dangly bits are just dangly bits. They really aren't special. Well, except to the person who loves you... probably!

Workers Using Computer Tablets To Launch Angry Birds, Not Excel Spreadsheets

Thinking about moving into the 21^st Century by investing in computer order cialis? Well, be aware that employees might have a little bit too much fun with them.

A Google AdMob survey finds we’re more likely to use computer cheap cialis such as the iPad for launching gaming apps like Angry Birds instead of Excel spreadsheets. A full 84% of people surveyed use their tablets for gaming, followed by emailing (74%); reading the news (61%); social networking (56%); watching movies/listening to music (52%); reading books (46%); shopping online (42%); and last but not least, the pretty much useless "other" category (19%).

Perhaps "other" includes using computer tablets to get some work done? Who knows, but only 7% of the people surveyed use their computer tablets at work compared to an 82% usage rate at home. Either companies fear computer tablets could become a time toilet/security risk, or employees think the IT department wouldn't be very supportive. Or both.



Additionally, only 28% of people surveyed have given up laptops and desktops for computer tablets, which might indicate that we humans still see a line of separation between tablets for the fun stuff and desktops/laptops for the boring work-life stuff.

Bottom line: If you give employees computer tablets and then see them tilting these tablets back and forth like a steering wheel, then you’ll know the score.

Viagra in the junk

They're doubling the size of their junk mail!

The past months my hotmail (yes, I still use hotmail) has been filled up with 131kb-sized junk in my junk mail. It only takes a few of them to fill up the vacant 50% in there.

Now, however, they've doubled the sizes. Today I've got two of 270kb and one of 286kb. The last one is, quite fittingly, from something called 'MonsterSized - Herbal Formula For Men'. I'm afraid they want to 'monstersize' other things than my junk mail box...

The other two are purchase cialis ads.
I don't want cialis.
I don't need viagra.
I'm a girl!

And even if it was viagra for women...
- how many 20 year olds do you think need viagra?