Animals use pheromones as chemical messengers to attract a mate or mark territory. But human sweat is very different.
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Once we learn waists can be altered, it can be surprisingly easy to start questioning whether ours needs changing too.
In today’s looksmaxxing culture, young men pursue a supposedly ‘ancient’ ideal that’s actually modern and pharmacologically constructed.
Maybe it’s time we all started ‘moderation-maxxing’.
Want a deeper voice to sound more ‘manly’?
Why faking it might appeal to other men, but not women.
AI-generated attractiveness scores raise concerns about body image, privacy, child safety and coercive control.
Sensationalizing extreme behaviors like self-starvation and ‘bonesmashing’ rather than treating them as mental health symptoms can prevent boys and young men from getting much-needed care.
Since rising to public prominence, the manosphere has been treated as if it’s just a niche corner of the internet. But those days are long gone.
Sociologist Jordan Foster explains the origins of the PSL scale on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Why gamers are comparing Nvidia’s DLSS-5 graphics tool to a Snapchat beauty filter.
Amid a masculinity crisis driven by status anxiety and socioeconomic shifts, young men and boys are turning to physical transformations to assert dominance and self-mastery.
Apps that promise young men ‘ascension’ to greater attractiveness can be a funnel to toxic incel ideology.
From ‘starvemaxxing’ and ‘edgemaxxing’ to ‘whitemaxxing’ – young men and boys are being bombarded with a plethora of problematic content online.
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Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, MacEwan University
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Toronto
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Media and Communication Scholar, Edith Cowan University
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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PhD Candidate, Humanities, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology
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Clinical Social Worker, University of Michigan
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Chartered Psychologist & Associate Professor of Digital Health & Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Research Fellow, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Doctoral Researcher, Meditation-based Interventions in Clinical Settings, Centre of Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland