Friendships aren't just about those you sit with on the school bus or play alongside on your childhood baseball team — they are a core component of the human experience, experts say. But making and retaining deep, meaningful friendships as an adult is hard, especially for men, according to research.

A study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior has found that boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, with this difference disproportionately affecting the unmarried, or individuals with disrupted relationship histories. Further, levels of social isolation increase from adolescence through later life for both genders.

Younger and middle-aged men are the loneliest they’ve ever been in generations, and it’s probably going to get worse. This is not my typical rosy view of relationships but a reality nonetheless. Over the last 30 years, men have become a larger portion of that growing group of long-term single people. And while you don’t actually need to be in a relationship to be happy, men typically are happier and healthier when partnered.

New research provides evidence that higher testosterone levels reduce the risk of unemployment and increase the odds of landing a job. The findings, which appear in the journal Economics & Human Biology, suggest that testosterone levels in men are related to behaviors and cognitive processes that influence labor market transitions.

Men who believe their level of masculinity is closely tied to their penis and its size are more likely to endorse sexist beliefs, according to new research published in the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities. The authors of the study saw there was a gap in the research literature when it came to the relationship between men’s view of their penis and their perceptions of masculinity.

Romantic partners of men might be interested to learn that there’s actually a technical term for the frequency with which men struggle to articulate their feelings: “normative male alexithymia.”

Studies show that men are much more open to dating someone outside of their height requirements than women are. "Twenty-three percent of men but only four percent of women said they were open to a relationship in which the woman was taller," a Huffington Post article explained.

Men are four times more likely than women to die from suicide. Learn why this is and what can you do if you or a loved one are having suicidal thoughts.

A new finding in mice rewrites the textbook explanation of the male sex-determining gene, Sry. It might also help us better understand how males and females come to be.

Some men view environmentalism as 'feminine', apparently, and avoid certain behaviours because of that.

Men who send unsolicited images of their private parts primarily do so with the hopes of receiving either similar images or sexual interactions in return...

The genetic condition is one of the most common in the UK and may be a leading cause of infertility in men. Why does it so often go untreated?

An academic study found that men really don’t get why women might not want to see their penis.

16 complaints filed by a Canadian trans woman make a mockery of the hate crimes committed against trans people every day

Men's social media status update generator - get a random status message for social media when you can't think of one.

Bond was always well-dressed, no matter what the climate. Often you see him in his signature light grey suit in tropical climates.

Testosterone production can slow as a person ages, and many older men have symptoms of low testosterone. The American Urology Association define low testosterone as less than 300 nanograms (ng) of the hormone per deciliter (dl) of blood. They also reported that about 2 in every 100 men have low testosterone.

In the late 1990s, a lonely teenager on the West Coast fired up his dial-up modem to find someone to talk to. He was a shy kid, too introverted to feel fully comfortable in the real world, and he logged on to the early internet’s bare-bones web forums for a sense of connection. There he found friends: other people who were awkward in real life, particularly when it came to sex and dating.

I had a whole gaggle of 100-point bucks in my sights, sleeping peacefully on their feet, like cows... By Evan Allgood.

A new male birth control pill passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month, and it produced hormone responses consistent with effective contraception, according to researchers at two institutions testing the drug. The Phase 1 study results was presented Sunday, March 24 at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in New Orleans, La.