We talk about Movember, why it’s important and how you can help the fight against cancer. Charlie Capen, from HowToBeADad, explains his personal involvement and why Movember is important to him. Zach kicks it up a notch and raises the stakes for his Movember donation campaign.

Hey guys, here’s a scientific kick to the nuts. Turns out our premium man seed loses octane over time and we now have a biological expiration date, sort of. Researchers at deCODE, the Icelandic global leader in analyzing and understanding the human genome, reported today that a father’s age, not a mother’s, at the time a child is conceived is the single largest contributor to the passing of new hereditary mutations to offspring.

To better understand the cause of new hereditary mutations, the deCODE team sequenced the genomes of 78 Icelandic families with offspring who had a diagnosis of autism or schizophrenia. The team also sequenced the genomes of an additional 1,859 Icelanders, providing a larger comparative population.

Iceland, huh.

With fathers taking more of a role in pregnancy and caregiving, “diaper parties” have become more popular. Basically, dudes celebrate their father-to-be friend by bringing him diapers, and then getting absolutely s**tfaced in his living room.

The Vancouver Sun talks about these diaper parties, and why it’s much more than a stripperless bachelor party. Where friends typically throw a bachelor party to “mourn” their no-longer-single friend, diaper parties are a congratulations and a welcome to fatherhood. And it’s more than a baby shower with balls – some diaper parties take place over a weekend in Vegas, or at a campsite. Some are just a backyard barbeque with a couple friends. The common thread is that during the weekend, guys that already have kids will drop some knowledge on the newbies – and the newbies feel comfortable enough to ask the things they wouldn’t normally ask at home.

This is a great move by modern men – what better way to celebrate fatherhood than to usher it in like chicks do with their baby showers. And what a way to bond with other fathers – and even show friends that might not yet be married or ready to have kids that becoming a father isn’t just something that men sit on the sidelines for. Us fathers are in the trenches, and proud of our families – and what better way to show it that one of these parties.

Diaper parties also go by the names: dadchelor party, man shower or daddymoon. I suspect they really don’t, but I’m guessing chicks on The Bump probably call them this, since they sound cutesy. The only “man shower” I’m interested in having includes me pounding a beer while I wash the conditioner out of my beard.

Check out the ‘Couver Sun for more.

Sauce: Vancouver Sun

Now that I’m married and have a kid, I’m not all that interested in Maxim Magazine and FHM. Since we’re being honest, I wasn’t all that interested in the first place – but got cheap subscriptions from Tanga.com. I wasn’t interested in the extreme sports, the drinking and rabid-woman-chasing articles (and pictorials) those magazines offered. In an age where you have unlimited access to nude women on the internet, who needs 5 pictures of a mostly-dressed movie star? Actually, that might be a different article for a different site.

Rhodri Marsden of England’s The Independent discusses a similar topic – why men’s magazines just don’t speak to him. He discusses exactly what it is these magazines offer – and what it might be that causes a disconnect between the writers and readers. “While this is obviously a cursory spin through,” Marsden notes, “much of the content could be summed up as cars, tits, danger, six-packs, tits, booze, football, tits, and tits.”

I’ll be honest: the only magazines I read nowadays are either music or video game-related, and even those are on their last straw with me, as the music magazines tend to be too politically-charged nowadays, and the video game magazines cover news I read a month prior on the internet. I, coincidentally, did like Geek Monthly Magazine but stopped reading it when I was laid off.

Are there any “good” men’s magazines out there? Do you read anything outstanding? Marsden and I would be interested to know.

Years ago, I worked for a men’s and fathers’ issue radio show called “His Side with Glenn Sacks“. And make no mistakes – it was the LARGEST men’s and fathers’ issues show in America at that time. Of course, it was one of the few men’s issues shows, largely because of the “boys don’t cry” mentality of America, and the assumption that men simply don’t have issues, and if they do, it’s because they caused them.

In any event, Robert Franklin, Esq. recently put up an article about domestic violence and “intimate terrorism,” which I at first thought was a sexy bedroom game. As Franklin explains, I’m wrong (go figure); intimate terrorism “is psychological or physical abuse that is intended to – and does – control the behavior of the other partner.”

His article is a good read, and it got me thinking about how we teach our daughters, as a society, that it’s okay to hit men.

Chris Illuminati recently posted a great article over at Asylum about Postpartum Depression for men, and what it’s recently meant for him. He’s a new father, and freelancing from home is giving him all of the signs of postpartum that we typically associate with women. It was “the crazy thoughts doing laps around my head at 4 a.m. that troubled me the most,” Chris says. “What if I just left him and went to bed? Threw my hands up, packed a bag, checked into a hotel and came back for his second birthday when most of the hard stuff was over?”

Well, Chris. I’ve got to tell you – it’s not just for stay-at-home dads. I’m a working father, and I also had a version of postpartum. Read on for another perspective.