I think that if men could menstruate it would be a openly discussed topic. Take a step into barracks and you’ll find that men aren’t very concerned with hiding their bodily movements, farts, burps, dip spit or really any other gross thing they do. The bathrooms in particular are a NSFW story to themselves. Men would openly make fun of each other’s periods and somehow it would come to be an insult just like being a dick is. We’d definitely see an increase in spending into how menstruation works and I think that charting your period would be a really normal thing.

Research into menstrual suppression would be driven by the professional sports leagues. The NFL only has 16 regular season games and they do everything they can to make sure that all of their players are in the best possible condition to perform on those days. Pitchers in baseball take the mound once every five games and are notorious for missing starts due to minor illnesses or even bruised fingers. To maximize performance, I think that professional sports leagues would heavily invest into menstrual suppression so that their athletes can feel in their prime physically and mentally. Even with that I’d be willing to bet that an athletes menstrual cycle would be taken into consideration during contract negotiations almost as a prior injury is today.

Teenage years would be especially difficult for young men if they had a large increase of testosterone every month. Already aggressive teenagers could be very difficult to deal with and I think that fights in middle and high schools would increase if young men didn’t learn to understand when they’re going to be PMSing. Having an app that would track your menstrual cycle would be very common and people would probably talk a lot more about their cycles if both men and women had a menstrual cycle. Since both men and women would be equal in that respect it would be a lot easier to talk about publicly.

Male and female circumcision is almost always a procedure that a child or newborn baby undergoes, without their consent. In both males and females, their parents are the ones deciding that they need to be circumcised. Whether it is for cultural, religious, or for medical purposes 200 million women worldwide have been circumcised and 1/3 of all men are circumcised. In all cases it is the parents making the decision for their child to be circumcised as a means to better their life. However, in western nations while male circumcision is seen as a beneficial medical practice female circumcision is seen as genital mutilation.

Male circumcision involves removing the foreskin of the penis in order to reduce the chances of developing an infection and as a means to reduce the transmission of STI’s. Female circumcisions vary in both amount of flesh removed and effects of the procedure. Type 1a circumcision is the removal of the clitoral hood to leave the clitoris more exposed. Types 1b, 2, and 3 vary in level of flesh removed but ultimately reduce a woman’s ability to experience pleasure from sex. Type 3 female circumcisions involve removal of the inner and outer labia, and then sewing together the affected area. Male circumcision can be looked at as comparable to a type 1a female circumcision where types 1b-3 would equate to removing all nerves from the penis to completely destroying the penis. Although female circumcision can easily be viewed as mutilation it is seen as a beneficial procedure in parts of Africa and southern Asia.

The practice of circumcision gives insight into how a culture values their women. In African and south Asian cultures where female circumcision is practiced women are seen as a means to an end. Sex for women is supposed to only be a means of producing children and they are not meant to derive pleasure from it, whereas the men are not mutilated and can experience pleasure from sex. Some in those cultures even view female circumcisions as a means of protecting their daughters so that they do not become promiscuous. In order to end female circumcision, it is going to take mass education of African and Asian cultures that continue the practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation#WHO_Types_I.E2.80.93II

Breast Cancer in men vs. women

Although extremely rare, breast cancer does develop in some men. Over 99% of breast cancer patients are female and only 1/1000 men will develop breast cancer in their lives. Breast cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in women. Although it may seem strange that a male would develop a disease that on the surface would seem like only women could contract, a man’s breast cells and tissue can still develop cancer. In women, the disease usually comes from genetic mutations. These mutations can either be passed down from generation to generation, or occur as a random mutation in an individual. A family history of breast cancer greatly increases an individual’s risk. For men, the risk is especially high when they have a family history of breast cancer associated with the BRCA2 gene.

The symptoms and development of breast cancer in males and females is very similar. Most patients experience a lump underneath of their breast tissue. However, the survival rate for women is much higher than the survival rate for men. This is mostly attributed to the way men and women are screened for breast cancer. Women over the age of 45 are recommended to undergo a mammogram every year to check for malignant tissue and tumors. Men however, do not undergo screening for breast cancer. Often times by the time that a male patient learns that they have breast cancer it is too late.

Normally breast cancer originates in the ducts that carry milk to the nipple. It can also occur in the glands that produce breast milk. For this reason, it is both extremely rare, and odd for men to develop breast cancer. Breast cancer can also develop in tissue of the breast not associated with milk production and are considered to be sarcomas or lymphomas and are not usually considered to be true breast cancer. Breast cancer can spread from the breasts to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system. This contributes to its high mortality rate when detection is late. For most men and women who have late detection of breast cancer it is extremely difficult to be cured.

http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/male-breast-cancer
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/about/how-does-breast-cancer-form.html