virility
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Male infertility can often be mixed up with ideas of virility and masculinity, making it more difficult for some men to acknowledge or discuss the problem.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
But behind the staged virility lies a ruler unusually preoccupied with bodily decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But it’s also part of Netflix’s “rise and fall” true crime genre, cautioning against believing in figures like Johnson, who hooks young men by flogging a version of caveman masculinity that associates virility with dominance.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
Youth and virility are big parts of masculinity.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2024
A fitness buff, he would often drop to the floor of the Caltech dining hall or other public areas and do one-armed pushups to demonstrate his virility to anyone who seemed inclined to doubt it.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
But, within weeks, he was at work on a chipper mural for the men’s lounge at Radio City Music Hall: orchestrated virilities of smoking, card playing, motoring, horse racing, sailing, and a barber pole.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2016
And so, toward the end of his year, he was physically not far from where he had been on coming to Deutschland for the sake of its inspiring virilities.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Stuart Oliver Henry
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