Testosterone effects on appearance

[liveonearth]

An excellent example of a man who LOOKS like he has very high testosterone is the Duke Lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen. Check out his mug. (PHOTO disappeared from web)

This young man threatened to kill and skin two strippers, in a nasty email on his Duke student account. He signed it with his team number, 41. Does his apparently dangerously high testosterone excuse such behavior? How about his value as a sports player? Aggressive violence and rape are common among sports teams and especially the alpha members of those teams. High testosterone is what makes him athletic and good at lacrosse. High T blurs his ability to think clearly, so it is akin to insanity. Should he be excused for possibly participating in the gang rape of one of these strippers? Should we monitor young men who show signs of high testerone as possible threats to society? Should we treat them as if it were a disease? I think that if high testosterone causes this kind of behavior (and I believe it does), it IS a threat to society and should be medically treated.

See my March 20 entry on Testosterone for more info.

Does this guy have any similarities in his face?? (BELOW)




And here's one more athlete who has rather public issues with testosterone: Floyd Landis, who lost the 2006 Tour de France title based on allegations that he was doping with synthetic testosterone.

Comments

high T questions

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

It's good to hear a man pipe up with some corroboration and relfection here. Thanks! I agree, blanket monitoring--or even testing---of the general populace is not likely to fly. It's just something I would love to do personally--maybe for my doctorate, who knows?

I ask the "is he excusable" question because universities have been sweeping rape cases under the rug for a long time. It seems to be expected for these guys to have a hard time with sexual boundaries, and to laugh it off as an inevitable cost of having a sports team. My alma mater (Univ of TN, Knoxville) has had great football teams with a lot of secrets. Many star players on the most lucrative sports teams are dangerous men. Strong and agressive high-T players draw in $$$, and so they get protection from the law by people with more greed than ethics.

To T test guys who have committed violent & sexual crimes seems like a pretty obvious way of finding out what's going on. Hormones have a whole lot to do with who we are. And there's room for plenty more research in this area. I would love to see all violent felons, male and female, undergo extensive health screening. I believe that much vicious, agressive and antisocial behavior occurs when a person is chemically out of his/her head, and not necessarily because they've ingested a drug.

It is my observation that very high testosterone levels are as plain to see in the face of the subject as fetal alchohol syndrome and down syndrome. And I feel sorry for those big-chinned guys. And steer clear of them. They are the ones for whom my short skirt is come-on enough to cause trouble.

I've got to go get a mug shot of OJ Simpson.

Re: high T questions

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

OK, so I did look at your pics and you don't appear to be in the super-high T zone like the pics I posted, but you're obviously no slouch in the T department.

Appearance checklist:
Long chin: semi.
Prominent brow: check.
Prominent cheekbones: semi.
Tiny frontal cranium: no.
Extreme "wolfish" look of the face: no.
Muscular build: check.
Broad shoulders: check.

Have you ever had yours tested?

On me: I'm built more like a man than a woman in the shoulder/hip ratio, wear men's pants, have muscular arms, etc. I theorize that this is because of T, and this provoked my original interest in the subject.

Have you heard Ira Glass' program on T? This American Life, plays on NPR. The T program was 2002. Ira interviews a regular guy who temporarily lacks T for medical reasons, and examines what is different. He also interviews a dyke who gets a sex change to become a man, and starts taking T. The change in perception is fascinating.

We are the way we are because of hormones and neurotransmitters. If we change either of those things, we become very different people.

In the middle ages, a legal punishment for certain crimes was castration. You sure would change a guy by doing that. How to "fix" violent females is not so obvious.

So you mentioned that you have worked in various "high T" professions. I see "police" on your shirt. What else?