5/00Estimated number of American men who suffer from compulsive bodybuilding: 669,000

Dr. Eric Hollander, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (N.Y.C.)

10/90Change, since 1988, in the number of minutes an American man spends on personal grooming each day: +15

Gentlemen’s Quarterly (New York City)

10/91Percentage of American men who say they have fantasized about having sex with a fictional TV character: 30

The Day America Told the Truth by James Patterson and Peter Kim (Prentice Hall, N.Y.C.)

12/91Percentage of American men who say they would rather have sex with Betty Rubble than Wilma Flintstone: 58

Esquire (N.Y.C.) and Beta Research Corporation (Syosset, N.Y.)

12/04Percentage of 30-year-old American men who were married, self-supporting fathers in 1960 and 2000, respectively: 65,31

American Sociological Association (Washington)