Masculinity
Wellness
The Strange History of “Toxic” Masculinity
How a self-help concept dreamed up by New Age therapists and poets turned into a caricature—and sparked a right-wing backlash.
Wellness
How Dior Sauvage Rules the World
This masculine fragrance is the best-selling scent for any gender. It’s also, let’s say—polarizing. Now the world’s most in-demand perfumer has joined Dior and produced his own version that, if you inhale deeply enough, poses fascinating questions about luxury, mass culture, and what men want to smell like.
Wellness
I’m a Skin Care Expert. I Still Got Skin Cancer
Do expensive serums and imported SPF still matter when I have carcinoma on my forehead?
Wellness
Meet the Young Men Paying to Attend Mogwarts, an Online School for Becoming Hot
Online "looksmaxing" communities have a seedy reputation. Could this one possibly be the exception?
Wellness
Pete Buttigieg’s Paternity Leave Was Complicated. Here’s What He Learned
The secretary of transportation (and 2020 presidential candidate) opens up about taking time away from work after he and his husband adopted twins who were dealing with health issues: “There were some dark moments when I wondered if the time that I had on leave was gonna be the only time that we got.”
Wellness
13 Men on the Highs and Lows of the New Era of Paternity Leave
GQ spoke to 13 fathers about managing work and life in the first weeks of parenthood: dirty diapers, bad bosses, and the everyday miracle of raising another human being.
Culture
Why Connor Hubbard’s Mundane Daily Routine Is Driving the Internet Insane
The Instagram and TikTok star says his videos celebrating middle-class normalcy are misunderstood: “I just wanna create a safe space for people to know that what you're doing is completely fine”
Wellness
The Longevity Gap Between Men and Women Is Getting Bigger. Here’s Why.
The major causes of untimely deaths in men are preventable.
Culture
Do You Need a Visit to the Confident Man Ranch?
Masculinity is evolving, and that shift has left some men feeling unmoored. At the foot of the Rockies, the operators of a dude ranch retreat are proposing a novel solution: a blending of cowboy culture and group therapy.
Style
How Did Kevin Smith Become a Transmasculine Style Icon?
For trangender guys and other transmascs, the Jay and Silent Bob auteur—and his huge jorts and hockey jerseys—have become an unlikely source of style inspiration.
Grooming
Meet the Surprisingly Young Guys Showing Off Their Hair Transplants on TikTok
A new generation of balding men are frankly discussing hairline-restoration surgeries on social media.
Wellness
Welcome to the Era of the Fake Six-Pack
Chiseled, visible abs were once something you’d see only on genetically-gifted gym rats. But these days, a growing number of men are paying big money to have a surgeon do the chiseling for them.
Health
Meet the Men Paying to Have Their Jaws Broken in the Name of “Manliness”
A growing number of men—often motivated by the darkest corners of the web—are paying vast sums to have their jaws broken and reshaped in the hope that a manlier mandible might transform them into “alphas” or “Chads.” Are they biting off more than they can chew?
Wellness
How Injectable Fillers Became the Biggest Thing in Penis Enlargement
The injectable treatments designed for plumping lips and smoothing wrinkles are now a quick way to get a little more girth.
Wellness
I Got a Cheap Hair Transplant In Turkey, the Recovery Was Agony, and I'd Do It Again In a Heartbeat
Ten months after traveling to Istanbul for a bargain surgery, our writer checked back in on the highs and lows of regaining the hairline of his youth.
Wellness
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Male Spanx
The power of smoothing and shaping underwear knows no gender.
Wellness
In the Court of the Liver King
From the medieval trappings of his Texas mansion to his raw organ-meat diet, the TikTok star and supplement magnate promotes living like a caveman in all aspects of life.
Grooming
How the Podcast Dewy Dudes Took the Training Wheels off Men’s Skin Care
Beauty is no longer just about looking pretty, it’s about expressing an identity—even if that identity is a gigantic dirtbag.
Wellness
A Vasectomy Can Be the Most Romantic Gift Of All
In hetero couples, women almost always are the ones to deal with contraception. But (in the right situation) dealing with that issue for good can be very romantic.
GQ Sports
What Michael Jordan Taught Me About Manhood—and How Stephen Curry Changed My Mind
The novelist Sean Thor Conroe was 11 years old when his parents split, and as a young hooper he naturally looked to Jordan as a father figure. Then came Iverson, and Kobe. But it was the arrival of a totally new kind of star who inspired the greatest shift yet in his approach to manhood.