{"id":77970,"date":"2022-05-03T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77970"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:42","slug":"golden-and-neswald-tucker-carlsons-discussion-of-testicle-red-light-therapy-is-nothing-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/05\/golden-and-neswald-tucker-carlsons-discussion-of-testicle-red-light-therapy-is-nothing-new\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLDEN and NESWALD: Tucker Carlson\u2019s discussion of testicle red-light therapy is nothing new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Neswald, Associate Professor of History at Brock University, and Janet Golden, Professor of History at Rutgers University Camden, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/04\/29\/tucker-carlsons-discussion-testicle-red-light-therapy-is-nothing-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a> <\/em>about the history of treatments and devices that claim to enhance potency in men.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRecently, a clip from Tucker Carlson\u2019s documentary special \u201cThe End of Men\u201d went viral. The video shows him discussing \u201ctesticle tanning\u201d with a \u201cfitness professional\u201d extolling the value of red-light therapy. Responses on social media ranged from humorous discussions of homoeroticism to applause for addressing the male identity crisis.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\"><em>Historians have a different take: Testicle tanning might rely on new devices and theories, but it is only the latest in a long line of treatments and devices meant to enhance potency. As the social meaning of manhood has shifted over the past two centuries, both scientism (trust in the methods and ideas of science) and hucksterism have answered male anxieties about virility with an array of unusual treatments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/04\/29\/tucker-carlsons-discussion-testicle-red-light-therapy-is-nothing-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post website<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Neswald, Associate Professor of History at Brock University, and Janet Golden, Professor of History at Rutgers University Camden, had a piece recently published in The Washington Post about the history of treatments and devices that claim to enhance potency in men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,37,6],"tags":[3071,384,75,11521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77974,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77970\/revisions\/77974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}