I want you to picture your father as he was at your present age. If your mother has some photos, even better; no imagination necessary. Is the man you are picturing more or less masculinized than the one you see in the mirror? If I had to guess, for at least 8/10 of you, the answer is that your father at your age was far more androgenic than you. No, don't blame your mom; this is not a story of genetics. Epigenetics, yes, but genetics? Not at all.
The baby boomer generation was the last generation to grow up before the iron curtain of modern endocrinological tyranny fully descended upon us all. As such, their cohort contains many of the last true men still walking the earth today. Yes, they face endocrinological assault daily, just like the rest of us today. They've been in the trenches alongside us for decades, but the key difference between them and us is that they were not in the trenches for the first decade or two of their lives. Boomers are the last generation of men who did not face the merciless onslaught of modernity during their developmental phase.
Their childhood and teen years took place right before modernity began to swallow the world whole. This is one of the reasons why the boomers have been, and still remain, one of the most potent political and cultural forces in our society. And it's also why one of your plates (see: spinning plates) is probably also plating for a boomer who just got divorced.
NOTE: For purposes of this article, I am ONLY talking about non-obese, metabolically healthy human beings. This article is only interested in those not suffering from extreme metabolic dysfunction, chronic inflammation, etc.
The Data
Testosterone, and more importantly, DHT (dihydrotestosterone), levels have plummeted in the last century. This chart only shows the last two decades, but it illustrates the point. If this much damage has been done in only the last 20 years, I shudder to think about what the fuller series might look like. Alas, I wasn't able to find a longer series easily, and I don't think it particularly necessary to illustrate the point. The point is, most millennial males are probably, quite literally, half the men their fathers were.

DHT levels are correlated with overall testosterone levels, so we can assume that declines in total testosterone correlate with lower Free T, DHT, higher estrogen, etc. This article isn't too concerned with convincing you that endocrine function is totally fucked in the present era; I am sure that there are millions of articles on here about that already. I'm more interested in discussing the society-wide effects of improper developmental androgenization for the youth and what having one living generation without this handicap is doing to our society.
Were I to sum this up into a perverse anecdote, it would be this: your father's cock is probably significantly girthier than yours. Insofar as you think about your cock size at all, you probably think about its length, but the truth is total mass, therefore accounting for girth, is 1) what counts most in the bedroom and 2) what reveals your level of androgenicity during development. This is a riff on the famous DHT-Taint relationship studies that went viral years ago.
Less perverted signs of high androgenicity during development:
Proper facial development (brow ridge, jaw, nose, eyes, etc.)
Surplus of body hair
Proper male smell (pheromones, general body odor, etc.)
Consistent low-grade effortless stoic mindset
Better instincts for frame and game with women
Resistance to stress
And more.
Inherited Wealth vs. High Income
Yes, many are taking to injections and using other methods to restore their androgenic potential, but using exogenous hormones to re-androgenize in mid or even early life is not the same as properly androgenizing during the developmental phase. It's the difference between wealth and income. With proper development, as many boomers got, they are sitting on a nest egg of hormonal wealth for the rest of their life. They can grow this windfall, watching it compound over time (or waste it, as many no doubt do). Whereas the re-androgenizer has figured out a way to generate high income, he will never have the compounding nest egg as a base of support. In other words, they'll always struggle to come up with the down payment.
Re-androgenizers will notice changes to the above list as they re-androgenize through TRT, etc., but the permanent long-term effect of androgenizing properly during the developmental phase can never be matched. There's something deeply unique to proper androgenization during your developmental phase that can't ever be totally reversed.
NOTE: This is not a call to blackpill. You absolutely should work out, eat right, get sunlight, and inject hormones if you want to find your androgenic maximum. It will surprise you how far you can get. It's just to note that there are fundamental differences between those who properly androgenize during development and those who do not.
Children Today
Yes, some androgenically healthy children are always being bred in small pockets here and there, probably more now, thanks to the advent of based spergaloid parents, but that is a relatively small coterie, and it's not yet clear to me that even the most careful of parents can actually recreate the Garden of Eden that the boomers grew up in.
The poison of the modern world is all-pervasive, and even if one could protect their child, it seems the psychological effects of growing up on a homestead in 2025 might just create newer varieties of problems. This is to say nothing of the problem of choosing correctly. As it pertains to vaccines, nutrition, etc., it's not entirely clear that we even know the right tack to take in order to recreate the boomers' conditions (perhaps worth exploring in future articles).
A Sol-Brah-ish type regimen of wellness does seem to be emerging that has much to recommend it, but the options available to a parent are many, and few will successfully navigate all of the forks in the road well. Making most of the right choices, the way that boomers' parents were able to do without even thinking about it, will be a challenge even for the MAHA-est of MAHA moms out there.
Let's dive into an example or two of how boomer hormonal supremacy is affecting the world around us.
Generation Cialis
Forget the fertility crisis; many ostensible grandparents are not grandparents the way they used to be understood. Boomer endocrinological supremacy has made it such that the newer generations' relative hormonal weakness, as compared to their parents, causes these aging boomers to be far too virile in relation to the whole of society. Add to it the sometimes effective healthcare industrial complex, and you have 70-year-old men going on hunting trips, getting divorced, buying McLarens, and riding motorcycles to their thriving small businesses, which all but run themselves.
By contrast, large swathes of the newer generations of Americans are anxious, tired, risk-averse, and unattractive across all vectors to women. The reason the boomer can't slow down is not just because of their famous selfishness; they can't slow down because there is so little competition from the generations beneath them to make them do so. The forcing function is broken.
In the past, whether a man had grandchildren or not, by age 65, it was sweaters, some dogs, a recliner, perhaps alcoholism, a new hobby, and the daily newspaper. If he was lucky, his old maid was still there for him. Nowadays, that same boomer man (grandkids or no grandkids) is literally on dating apps pulling 30-something spinsters, at the gym crushing it, and holding court with his pals at his favorite local high-end restaurant. Why learn carpentry as a hobby in your backyard as a retiree when there are millions of mentally ill 30-something women craving nothing more than to curl up on your hairy chest and inhale the scent of a real man?
In the movie Gran Torino (he's not a boomer, I get it, but still), there wasn't a subplot where Clint Eastwood's character was banging out some 39-year-old Accenture consultant, but if we're being realistic, a version of that movie based on a slightly younger 70-year-old boomer absolutely could include that without the audience batting an eye.

This is because of their relative status within our society. These are some of the last true men remaining in our society. What's more is that many of them are extremely wealthy; they often have very good instinctual frame/game, and they are swimming in a pond full of hormonally deformed men who, though younger than them, may as well not be.
To be clear, I am not blaming the boomers for taking full advantage. Were I in their position, I probably would too. The point is, boomers' relative status in society is utterly unprecedented. Never in human history has there been a large class of retirees that are hormonally superior to the vast majority of the youthful population.
Women, Sex, and Generation Alpha
Women have been noticing. The ladies are noticing! The relative decay of men in the younger generations is making these endocrinologically supreme boomer males an attractive option for ladies, where, once upon a time, this would have been pretty unusual (though not unheard of).
Karoline Leavitt is an interesting current example. This is her and her husband; his name is Nicholas Riccio, and he is 59 years old. While technically not a boomer (one year off), he perfectly illustrates the point. Look at this guy; now compare him to your typical millennial homosapien. He may as well be full Neanderthal by comparison.
Yes, this guy is rich, has status, good frame, all that shit. And sure, he's probably using PEDs and all sorts of things to maintain his vitality into old age. But the fact is, this guy is more androgenic than most men of the millennial cohort will ever be, no matter how many needles they use. Hormonally, he has high income and significant wealth saved up.
And no, this isn't a genetic story; it's a, what was the world like when this guy developed into a man, story. This is an, I played in the sun naked without sunscreen, story. This is an I wasn't given 87 vaccinations as a child story. This is a my mom ate a saturated fat-rich diet and breastfed me, story. This is a, two of my friends died in a car crash when I was 16, story, etc., etc.
To use a redpill term, this guy is more alpha than most millennials could ever hope to be. And it's not just because of his genetics; it's because he is one of the last men to be born and developed before the iron curtain of globo-homo began salting the earth with xeno-estrogens, bad nutrition advice, and destroying the ability for our sons to properly androgenize during their formative years.
Hormonal Wealth Gap
Much ink has been spilled over the idea of wealth and income disparity in America and elsewhere, but not enough has been written about the deep hormonal wealth gaps between boomers and the younger generations.
This article is meant to set the stage for many future articles describing and analyzing the effects of Boomer Hormonal Supremacy on our world. For now, I suggest going out into the world and seeing if what I have described is something you notice out there.
NOTE: I don't suggest buying a tailor's tape and asking your dad to whip it out. Don't be weird.
Lastly, I leave you with these two photos. One is of Andrew Tate; the other is a supposed photo (although it looks almost AI-generated to me) of his father, Emory Tate. It's not the best comparison due to the race-mixing and Andrew clearly being more muscular, but I would suggest that if you look closely and don't let yourself get bogged down in meme-physiognomy, you might just notice that Emory seems to have Andrew beat when it comes to hormonal inheritance. You can tell that Emory grew up in a world before widespread endocrinological terror. One has high income, the other more wealth.


And yes, this article was inspired by a plate of mine letting slip that she occasionally sees a boomer for similar activities. I suppose it is a commentary on my own hormonal wealth that she felt comfortable letting this be known to me. I suspect my boomer eskimo-cousin has not heard of me at all, she knows better than to ever bring it up to him. Nevertheless, I chose to inquire a bit and write up this article based upon it. Perhaps, I'll never see her again because of this. Oh well.
In future articles I will explore topics like:
When the boomers die, will this problem sort itself out? A sort of socialized lowering of the hormonal standards society-wide?
Boomers never retire, is this caused by this phenomenon?
Age Gap discourse fails to account for this phenomenon? Is the sexual marketplace being influenced by this phenomenon more than RedPillers and Feminists want to admit?
Will Barron Trump end up masculinizing in an equivalent fashion to that of his father Donald Trump? Melania seems to have put every care into ensuring this. If it cannot be achieved by her, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Can we estimate the prevalence of True Males (proper androgenic development) in each generational cohort?
Will women lower their standards as the largest cohort of true males dies / becomes sexually non-viable? Can you pine for a true male if you’ve never seen one in person?
What will become of motorcycles in the future?
Will we experience more or less socio-political unrest as the boomers die off and we are left with precious few individuals who underwent proper androgenic development?
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I'm quite surprised to see that I am the first person to respond to this article over a week after it was published. However, it really resonated with me. When I think of or look at photos of my dad (born in the 20s) & grandfather (late 19th century), they look far older than me (I'm 67) & my Boomer contemporaries (for the most part). By this point in their lives, both had at least one heart attack (dad two), but I'm still chugging along. Shit, even my slovenly older brother (72) hasn't had one. I joined the Navy at 19 not long after the Vietnam War ended, & I still had my high school track athlete body, so of course I thought I would always look that way. Thankfully I wised up & started attending to my physical fitness again (plus the Navy demanded it), but as I entered my 30s & during the approach to my 40s, I was dismayed at the physical decrepitness of the younger Sailors. Shockingly, they could not keep up with me during the semi-annual physical fitness test (1.5 mile run/25 pushups/50 situps) even at my relatively advanced age! Fast forward to my mid-50s & I'm living in Old Town Alexandria, VA, a charming walkable town across the Potomac River from DC that was popular with tourists & locals. I was incredibly fit (P90X - thank you Tony Horton) & was amazed by how bold women (my age, older, & younger) were in sizing me up head-to-toe without any shame at all. If I was of a mind (I'm married), this was a target rich environment that I could have turned to my advantage. It seemed like every woman there (they far outnumbered the men) was walking a dog, which to me said it was a substitute for male partner/companionship (I guess similar to what VP JD Vance refers to as the childless cat ladies). As I begin the approach to my 70s (& God willing, later on my 80s), I look up to men like Dr. Mark Hymen for how to eat right, & Mark Sisson for how to stay fit & active as I age. I take NO meds, use daily supplements, continue to do P90X & other BeachBody.com exercise routines, get in some forest bathing, & generally do my best to keep moving. I'm retired & would like to believe that I am wealthy in the way you describe in this article. Thank you so much for publishing it, although I suspect it won't be welcomed in all quarters.