Testosterone Higher than Iq: Why Men Are Unnecessarily Aggressive, Destructive and Die Early

By Bruce Maxwell McManus

Maleness is complex, confusing and contentious. Such a state renders the mind more vulnerable to emotions, thoughts and behaviors that often are harmful, for oneself and for others. Here I pursue, with lightness and whimsy, the role of testosterone in the obverse achievements of the human male subspecies. Torn from reality, these observations may seem fictional.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Jan 31, 2024
• ISBN: 9781779415912

Bruce Maxwell McManus

I am a seasoned human being, with an interest in the cataclysm that our species is rendering on our small planet. While possibly not apparent, I am a scholar, a senior, a mentor. I see our collective lives as special, short, and shocking. I like to laugh. My family likes me.

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Testosterone Higher Than IQ

Copyright © 2024 by Bruce Maxwell McManus

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Acknowledgment

A wide range of people and situations have stimulated the fanciful thoughts and ideas offered in this treatise.

Dedication

For my family, whose laughter fills my heart.

Maleness and Mayhem

Life on earth is desperately short. A good part of this defined time on earth is related to a modern biological concept of the cell, termed programmed cell death. At the organismic level one could say that programmed behavior facilitates the dying process. The behaviors are derived from a collision of genetic and environmental circumstances. Ecogenetics of healthy living stems in substantial part from our hormones. Perhaps as much as by any hormonal regulator, the chance of a safe and sane survival is constrained by androgens (male sex hormones) and perhaps is most and best illustrated by testosterone.

Males are blessed with an excess of the latter. They just don’t have a better excuse for bad judgment and deplorable behavior. Throughout life, testosterone runs counter to intelligent acts, a foil for other causes of uncivilized deportment. Gross stupidity can truly be rendered from the bounty of misdirected steroid metabolism. Thus, this story . . . an exploration of destiny through the eyes of a hormone.

Nothing in this volume is entirely true. Nothing can be substantiated by broad research or conversations with scholars. Similarities to real life must be considered an accident and no one named in the storyline may have ever existed in exactly the fashion portrayed. To steal a phrase, it’s virtual reality, to be experienced in the mind’s eye. A paper version of the feelies. Is this what a brave new world is all about? Would Aldous Huxley have agreed? I should guess.

My family is not responsible for the plausibly deviant conception that follows in these pages. Most of them are simply nice people. In fact, my wife and children are truly special and unique human beings who have found a way to live with, and in a way, may love my excessive interest in testosterone.

Bruce

Storyline

Acknowledgment

Dedication

Maleness and Mayhem

I           Early Warnings

II          A Child From Hell

III        Hired Help Humps the Cow, Almost

IV        More Tales From the Farm

V          Scrotal Edema

VI        Tires + Testicles = Trouble

VII       Fisticuffs

VIII     War and Death as Sport

IX        Yellow Sclerae and Gold Medals

X          Power Plays Without the Puck

XI         The Chianina Surprise

XII       Mental Deficiency and Criminal Behavior

XIII      Does the World Need Testosterone

An Afterthought

About the Author

Early Warnings

Head butting, ramming, slamming relentlessly into the soft spongy surface, pushing, probing, desperately searching for the weakness, and then at last one of the spermatic horde has broken through. None shall follow. The ultimate goal of this hormonally haunted microscopic tadpole has been reached, the prize has now been won. To the victor goes the spoils . . . a principle that androgens will drive home again and again! Even the successful sperm projects an image of superiority, of dominance, of thoughtless masculinity.

Of course, the sperm has no brain, no cortices cerebri. To imply that sperm should use their heads for purposes beyond fertilization, beyond having their own way, beyond biological duty, may be too much to ask. Much the same can be said for males of our species, just as likely to head butt, to punch holes in things, and above all, to win, win, win! And to exercise their option to rampantly masturbate, and, oops, cerebrate. Sperm and men come by their aggression honestly . . .by soaking in a primordial sea of testosterone.

With impregnation comes another chance for freedom, a chance for femaleness, a fork in the road.

Oh, give me those two X chromosomes, spare me a lifetime of androgenemia, cries the victimized egg.

The probability is greater than 50%. But swift fate soon renders the fortune, and the deed is done. Androgenized! The impact will not be visible for a time, except to Friends of the Fraternal Order of Fatherhood. A calm will persist as nature takes its early course. Indeed, serenity cannot be characterized better than life in the purring ocean of amniotic fluid where the gentle fetuses swim. A port partly insulated from life’s storm, away from a madding crowd . . . except when there are twins, triplets, or perhaps even decuplets.

But before the ultrasound can detect the penile promontory, the maleness, the madness can be felt.

"My, the baby’s active, he’s really stamping around in