Testosterone is made in the testes, but it’s the pituitary gland that really calls the shots: The pituitary gland transmits a chemical signal, called luteinizing hormone (LH), which motivates the testes to make testosterone. But LH can be blocked by a synthetic analog (a chemical look-alike that acts differently) of another of the body’s chemical [...]
So think about it: Has BPH changed your life? Are you still able to do everything you want to do? Or are you adjusting your life to accommodate your BPH—giving up seats to a baseball game, for instance, so you won’t have to endure the long lines in the men’s room? If you’re planning your [...]
LHRH agonists are another option. LHRH agonists shut down production of LH. The most commonly prescribed LHRH agonists are leuprolide and goserelin. These drugs are equivalent to treatment with DES or to surgical castration in their ability to lower testosterone and lengthen a man’s lifespan. A drug called ketoconazole blocks production of testosterone by targeting [...]
And testosterone brings us to the prostate. Testosterone circulates in the blood and enters the prostate by diffusion, like water through a tea bag. Soon it undergoes a metamorphosis. Testosterone is transformed, by an enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase, into a hormone called DHT(dihydrotestosterone)—which is more than twice as powerful as testosterone. Several studies have shown that [...]
Radiation treatment means going to the hospital on a daily or near-daily basis and lying flat on your back or stomach on a table for a few minutes as a big X-ray machine (similar to, but larger than, ones you’ve seen at the dentist’s office) moves in an arc or circle over the targeted fields. [...]
Of the three groups of homosexual offenders, the homosexual offender vs. children is the least oriented toward his own sex. He has, however, far more homosexual experience than any of the nonhomosexual offenders. In incidence of homosexual experience, in or out of prison, the three groups of homosexual offenders head the rank-order, the offenders vs. [...]
The average (median) offender was a little more than thirty-four years old at the time of his offense; the range is from the midtwenties to the late fifties. Some 4 per cent of the men were, at that time, separated, divorced, or widowed. The others were married, although in 9 per cent of the cases [...]
Nothing particularly meaningful emerges from a study of the group’s ejaculations and dreams experienced during sleep. Comparatively few (78 per cent) had nocturnal emissions but this figure is only a few percentage points removed from that for most sex-offender groups. Like the other aggressors, they occupy an upper-middle position in a rank-order of those with [...]
While the heterosexual offenders vs. minors did not have much to do with girls before adolescence, by ages sixteen to seventeen they had remedied this situation and had more female companions than most sex offenders. Half of them reported numerous girl companions, the third highest percentage, but 18 per cent reported none: in summary, this [...]
One of our major problems of analysis was what to do about the portion of a man’s life spent in prison. To illustrate, let us take an unmarried twenty-five-year-old from our control group who attained puberty at age thirteen, and an identical male from our prison group. The control-group male has had 12 years of [...]