Puberty sucked on so many levels. Even if your mom (let’s face it, moms were usually on puberty duty for their daughters) prepared you with every book and lecture possible, you, no doubt, have at least one puberty horror story, too. It took a long time to get over the embarrassment of sprouting breasts, periods, […]
I started puberty earlier than my peers. Like 23 percent of Black girls and 10 percent of white girls, by about seven-years-old, I was already developing breasts. I remember the day my mother came home from work with a plastic shopping bag in hand. “You’re going to have to start wearing one of these,” she said as […]
Sex hormone that controls male physical features is called testosterone. This main hormone which is produced by testicles are found in the women too, but in a significantly smaller amount than in men. The importance of the testosterone for boys and men are that this specific sex hormone turns every boy into a man in […]
