lose some weight, put down that third beer, get some exercise (no sweetie, golf doesn't count) and reign in that diabetes?

These methods have the added attraction of making yourself more attractive to your mate!

... need to stick to their knitting and give up on trying to understand medicine or men.

Viewing porn, which is usually "ideal" females, complete with flattering lighting, pancake makeup, and surgical enhancements, often leads to men finding their wives less attractive, thus compounding the problem.

Lots of men would rather jack it to porn than make love to their partners. No pressure, it's all about pleasing yourself.

How about, like the other poster said, both partners get in shape instead, and try to make sex something more than just "getting off"? Probably a little healthier than developing such a lame addiction.

Or they could just go the way of Japanese men, preferring porn and robot and cartoon girls to the real thing.

What if it was some form of oh...... estrogen for gals and suddenly you discovered there's one insurance company in Papua New Guinea that refused to pay for it.

Hormonal deprivation in males leads to many of the same long run medical maladies that it does in women, including osteoporosis, depression, poor muscle tone and such.

So snark on, bitches. Unlike most of your pet projects like furry mammals with eating disorders and PTSD brought on by having a full time job, t-level is an actual empirical measureable construct. A low and a high number exist in the real world and you can plot outcomes based on that.

Stick to transgender sexting and all those brutally real externalities of life that you do so well.

Come on Amy- I don't have to spell it to for you, do I? Wife gets old. Wife gets fat, Wife gets wrinkly. Wife gets tired and grumpy. As much as you women want to deny it- everyone ages. Everyone becomes physically less and less attractive.

Is this posted in Broadsheet ? If this was something that should be covered at all, it would benefit from anywhere but this pink ghetto.

PS I'll stick to the gym, thanks.

Like importing a third-world hottie and enjoying the non-stop relation building activities.

Also, generally ignoring all western propaganda pertaining to men's sexual life-cycles and manipulation compliance.

Worked for me.

give women the bad news.

Other people may be more attractive in theory, but if both people do things right from a proper foundation the person you are with should stay attractive ENOUGH for long ENOUGH. It may seem unrealistically optimistic but what is the alternative plan then.

"Getting a gut, getting cranky and not getting any is synonymous with being a straight suburban dad?"

Yes, absolutely.

If you're married man, why would you want to get MORE horny anyway? One of the advantages to getting older is losing those surging hormones of youth, and since the majority of wives want nothing to do with their husbands in bed, it's a relief for those husbands not to get all hot and bothered when they know there's no chance of release.

The Japanese men I know definitely prefer their ladies in the flesh. Your sexually ethnocentric comment is about as banal as other Western dude jokes (such as supposed penis size differences).

Speaking of such fetishes, this is the perfect place for a recent Onion classic (full story linked from signature):

Asian Teen Has Sweaty Middle-Aged-Man Fetish

AOMORI, JAPAN—At first glance, 17-year-old Misaki Nakajima seems like any other shy and submissive Japanese schoolgirl. She loves shopping, text messaging, and the color pink. But beneath her wholesome exterior lies a wicked secret: Misaki Nakajima is consumed by sexual fantasies involving sweaty, middle-aged American men...

isn't it spelled testosterone? I'm seeing it misspelled twice (two different ways) in this article -- from a quick glance only. If it's the topic of the article, shouldn't it be spelled properly, at a minimum?

so prudish (or obsessed and schizophrenic) fanatics or just people who have a problem with people liking to think, talk, read about and look at sex are unlikely to be able to make it work.

...keeps people young and puts a smile on our face.

Problem is dragging along relationships that are long dead. That's where the mainstream culture comes in. But we can free ourselves from it! Let there be freedom to live, love, and enjoy while we have life!

With wrinkles, pounds and reading glasses we can put up. A dead sex life kills body, soul, and wit.

The author's assertion that having sex with ones own partner is just as good as porn for raising testosterone misses an important point. Many men are physically incapable of having sex with their significant other because the hormonal and neuronal impulses needed just aren't there. Even if the spouse is drop-dead gorgeous, after awhile the desire disappears. Whatever little chemical and electrical processes there used to be to get the motor running just don't happen. However, put a stranger into the mix and voila! - it's go time. That is why so many men suddenly have "erectile dysfunction" and turn to the likes of Viagra. It's not because they can't have sex, or because they want to become sexy beasts - it's so they can have sex with their wives again. Erectile dysfunction is code for "I want to have sex and still be faithful". Again - this has nothing to do with that partners physical appearance, so women shouldn't use this phenomenon as evidence that they are somehow less attractive. This isn't an excuse for cheating either. Sex is a choice, and choices have consequences. This is just recognition that sexual desire and monogamy are not natural bedfellows, and there are no simple solutions to this problem.

When treating male HIV patients during my fellowship I had several of them on Androgel. It's not really that new of a product. The typical situation in which I used it was a guy who was still complaining of feeling generally fatigued despite having a supressed HIV viral load and good T-cell count. Check a free testosterone level, if it comes back low--boom--put him on a little Androgel. More often than not it helped.

Plenty of doctors--not only infectious disease doctors, but oncologists and internists, too--have been using this stuff for years. Low testosterone is a quantifiable thing, as was mentioned earlier. It's just a matter of testing for it--the only thing is it's not a routine test, and no one tests for it unless a guy is having symptoms (which are usually pretty vague.)

What's probably going on here, with the ad campaign, is yet another drug company expanding their chunk of market share. Just like all those other "ask your doctor" ads that tell folks to get tested for depression or osteoporosis--more people get tested, more depression or whatever gets diagnosed, and the drug company sells more drugs.

Meanwhile, drug companies that are developing new stuff that I could really use, (like a new antibiotic for multi-drug resistant gram-negative bacteria, maybe) are few and far between. But I'll stop here because that's a whole 'nother rant.

And the snark about the side effects list is getting pretty tired, in my opinion. Do some research about how prescription drugs are approved sometime. Every drug approved by the FDA is required by law to include every side effect that has ever been even remotely associated with it at any time during the development process--even something as a ridiculous as, say, eye twitching in 0.01% of patients. Read the package insert on your birth control pills sometime and you'll see what I mean.