Reading About Men's Health: Where to Start
A guide to our Men's Health shelf — thirteen anthologies of first-person testimony, from prostate trouble and ED to low testosterone, vasectomy, and male fertility.
October 20, 2024 · By The Editors, Healing Stories Network · 1 min read
Men are famously bad at talking about their health — and famously good at suffering quietly until something forces the conversation. The topics on this shelf are exactly the ones that go unspoken: prostate trouble, erectile dysfunction, low testosterone, fertility struggles. Fifty men per volume break that silence, plainly and without bravado.
Here is the Men's Health shelf, mapped.
Prostate and urinary
Sexual health
- Rising Above: ED Treatment Stories
- Taking Control: PE Treatment Stories
- Straightforward: Peyronie's Disease Treatment Stories
Hormones
Fertility and family planning
- The Snip: Vasectomy Experience Stories
- Reversed: Vasectomy Reversal Success Stories
- Father Figures: Male Infertility Treatment Stories
- Untangled: Varicocele Treatment Stories
Appearance and confidence
From the Reading Room
Companion pieces include an honest companion to ED, prostate cancer, and what a vasectomy is really like.
The whole shelf lives in our Men's Health collection.
These books are companion reading, not urological advice. The conditions on this shelf are common, treatable, and nothing to wait out in silence — a doctor's visit is the stronger move.
The Reading Room publishes personal stories and editorial notes from our press. Everything here is companion reading — never medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For guidance about your own health, please speak with a qualified clinician.