This site has a joke for a name and a serious job. These are the rules the content is written to.
Every clinical claim is sourced, and the source is linked
If we tell you something about your body, you can click through and check it. We cite, in rough order of preference:
- Clinical practice guidelines from specialty bodies — the American Urological Association, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Endocrine Society
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, particularly Cochrane reviews
- Large randomized controlled trials
- Government health agencies — FDA drug labeling, the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, the CDC
- Individual peer-reviewed studies, identified as such
We do not cite other content sites as evidence for medical claims, and we do not cite a supplement manufacturer’s own materials as evidence that its product works.
We say when the evidence is weak
Much of what gets written about men’s health concerns questions that have been studied badly, or barely, or not at all. Where that’s the case we say so, and we try to say how it’s weak — small samples, no control group, surrogate outcomes instead of ones that matter, findings that vanish when poorly-conducted studies are excluded.
“The evidence is very low certainty” is a real finding, and reporting it is more useful than manufacturing confidence.
We report findings that are inconvenient for advertisers
Some of the best-evidenced answers in this subject area are bad news for people selling things — including things we may earn commission on. We publish them anyway. A site that only reports findings favourable to its revenue is worth nothing to the reader, and readers work that out quickly.
We do not fabricate medical review
If an article has been reviewed by a clinician, we name them, give their credentials, and say what they reviewed. If it hasn’t, there is no reviewer byline. There will never be a generic “medically reviewed by our expert team” line on this site standing in for review that didn’t happen.
We would rather be honestly unreviewed than dishonestly credentialed.
We distinguish things that are commonly confused
Semen volume is not sperm count. Erectile dysfunction is not low testosterone. Premature ejaculation is not a performance failure. A great deal of confusion in this space is profitable to somebody, and clearing it up is most of what a site like this is good for.
We date everything
Every article shows when it was last reviewed. Medical consensus moves. An undated health article is a health article you have no way to evaluate.
What we don’t do
- We don’t diagnose. Nothing here is medical advice, and nothing here can account for your individual circumstances.
- We don’t sell a product. There is no house supplement. There never was.
- We don’t use scare tactics or shame. The marketing in this category runs on male insecurity. We’re not doing that.
- We don’t publish before-and-after photos, testimonials, or user results. They cannot be verified and they are trivially faked.
- We don’t recommend prescription medication. We explain what the evidence says about treatments; what you should take is between you and a doctor.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to know and we will fix it. Corrections are made to the article with the review date updated. Where a correction changes the substance of what we said, we note what changed.
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How we make money
Through affiliate commissions and, potentially, advertising. That’s disclosed in full on our affiliate disclosure page. It does not determine what we conclude — see the third standard above.