Personal health · 5 MIN READ
Penitent Wind
Learning to live with penile flatus
For several months, I blamed the radiator. Then I attended a conference in a hotel with underfloor heating.
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PERSONAL HEALTH · 5 MIN READ
A Little
Further Along
Finding my second anus at forty-seven.
There is an age at which a man begins to suspect he has missed something.
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Personal health · 6 MIN READ
A Lot to Give
Finding purpose in midlife lactation
I had been Head of Procurement for eleven years when I first let down. We were discussing printer contracts.
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Personal health · 7 MIN READ
A Change of Direction
When my hair began leaving for another man
The first hair I found on my colleague’s jacket could easily have been a coincidence. Then he developed my parting.
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Research & observation · 7 MIN READ
A Question of Standing
Distal spermatogenesis and the modern sock
For many years, men reporting reproductive activity below the knee were referred to podiatry. Podiatry referred them back.
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Research & ethics · 8 MIN READ
A Life Ahead of You
On nasal ovarian activity and the obligations of becoming oneself
The discovery was made during a routine examination for a persistent sense of obstruction. The question of who might follow required a separate department.
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Personal health · 9 MIN READ
A Certain Formality
Coming to terms with a change in one’s movements
The first sock was small enough to dismiss. There was a heel. I waited until my wife had finished her breakfast.
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