--- title: TIME Magazine Manopause description: Manopause?! Aging, Insecurity and the $2 Billion Testosterone Industry These drugs promise to pump up men who feel deflated. But are they safe? Why Big... canonical: https://time.com/3063065/time-magazine-manopause/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-31T10:56:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T20:04:07.213Z article:section: Health og:title: TIME Magazine Manopause og:description: Manopause?! Aging, Insecurity and the $2 Billion Testosterone Industry These drugs promise to pump up men who feel deflated. But are they safe? 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Why Big... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1158bc77ab98fea/69869de9361760946d90d484/manopause-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # In The Latest Issue (31 Jul 2014) by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 31, 2014 10:56 AM UTC  Photograph by Phillip Toledano for TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 31, 2014 10:56 AM UTC [Manopause?! Aging, Insecurity and the $2 Billion Testosterone Industry](http://time.com/3062889/manopause-aging-insecurity-and-the-2-billion-testosterone-industry/) These drugs promise to pump up men who feel deflated. But are they safe? [Why Big Mergers Are Bad for Consumers](http://time.com/3062887/why-big-mergers-are-bad-for-consumers/) When big companies merge, it’s good for the bankers—but not so good for the rest of us [Begging for Impeachment](http://time.com/3059398/obama-impeachment/) To improve its standing with voters, the White House tries to drum up some trouble for itself [How Kentucky Got Obamacare Right](http://time.com/3062886/how-kentucky-got-obamacare-right/) In the deep-red, Bluegrass state, the Affordable Care Act is an unlikely hit. Just don’t call it by that name [Honduras’s Desperate Voyagers](http://time.com/3062878/hondurass-desperate-voyagers/) Children are leaving by the thousands and heading north. Fear of gangs and the promise of prosperity have created a refugee crisis for Barack Obama [Cracking The Girl Code](http://time.com/3062885/cracking-the-girl-code/) Tech giants bet on summer camps to close their gender gap [Big Data Tries to Shrink the Prison Population](http://time.com/3062881/big-data-tries-to-shrink-the-prison-population/) Risk-assessment programs aim to make sentencing more efficient—but can they deliver equal justice? [This Election Season, Revenge of the Thirds](http://time.com/3062892/this-election-season-revenge-of-the-thirds/) Extra-party politicians heat up the race for 2014 [The Culture](http://time.com/3062898/the-culture/) [Twitch.tv, the New Frontier of Online Video](http://time.com/3062897/twitch-tv-the-new-frontier-of-online-video/) The streaming service for gamers could be facing a billion-dollar acquisition by Google [Spoon Stirs Up New Album _They Want My Soul_](http://time.com/3062875/spoon-stirs-up-new-album-they-want-my-soul/) The band’s first album in four years drops Aug. 5 [_Guardians of the Galaxy_: A Bratty _Star Wars_](http://time.com/3062890/guardians-of-the-galaxy-review-a-bratty-star-wars/) No marvels in this quintet’s mythology [Review: _In the Kingdom of Ice_ Brings Cold Comfort](http://time.com/3062894/review-in-the-kingdom-of-ice-brings-cold-comfort/) Hampton Sides recounts a forgotten tragedy of American arctic exploration [Online Dating That Matches as You Do, Not as You Say](http://time.com/3062873/online-dating-that-matches-as-you-do-not-as-you-say/) Zoosk and others try to bridge the gap between what you say you want and what you actually want [Double Dipping for America](http://time.com/3062899/double-dipping-for-america/) Why do some political donors give equally to both candidates? [10 Questions With Maggie Gyllenhaal](http://time.com/3062874/10-questions-with-maggie-gyllenhaal/) The actor on how to be human, her issue with Obama and why she won’t talk about the Middle East [A Clippers Sale](http://time.com/3062891/a-clippers-sale/) NBA team is good to go [Pop Chart](http://time.com/3062896/pop-chart/) [Milestones](http://time.com/3062893/milestones/) [Ebola Doctors](http://time.com/3062876/ebola-doctors/) In a risky fight [Briefing](http://time.com/3062879/briefing/) [World](http://time.com/3062872/world/) [That Old-Time Medicine](http://time.com/3062895/that-old-time-medicine/) [What You Said About …](http://time.com/3062888/what-you-said-about/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3063065/time-magazine-manopause/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3063065/time-magazine-manopause/"},"headline":"In The Latest Issue (31 Jul 2014)","datePublished":"2014-07-31T10:56:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T20:04:07.213Z","description":"Manopause?! 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