Ask A Genius 1398: Prostate Health, Male Sexuality, and Academic Anecdotes: Rosner’s Unfiltered Insights
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/06/02
Rick Rosner is an accomplished television writer with credits on shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Crank Yankers, and The Man Show. Over his career, he has earned multiple Writers Guild Award nominations—winning one—and an Emmy nomination. Rosner holds a broad academic background, graduating with the equivalent of eight majors. Based in Los Angeles, he continues to write and develop ideas while spending time with his wife, daughter, and two dogs.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen is the publisher of In-Sight Publishing (ISBN: 978-1-0692343) and Editor-in-Chief of In-Sight: Interviews (ISSN: 2369-6885). He writes for The Good Men Project, International Policy Digest (ISSN: 2332–9416), The Humanist (Print: ISSN 0018-7399; Online: ISSN 2163-3576), Basic Income Earth Network (UK Registered Charity 1177066), A Further Inquiry, and other media. He is a member in good standing of numerous media organizations.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner advises regular prostate checkups, PSA tests, digital exams; frequent ejaculation for prostate health, sharing humorous personal anecdotes. They discuss male sexuality’s evolutionary background, Rosner’s first-grade Columbus essay rejecting myth, his dry-hand sex practices, and his favorite academic challenges in algebra and statistics, highlighting pattern recognition and data privacy.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, Joe Biden has aggressive prostate cancer.
Rick Rosner: One thing men can do to lower the risk of prostate cancer is to get regular checkups after age 50. PSA blood tests, digital rectal exams—sometimes even a biopsy if it runs in your family.
And you should ejaculate regularly. Masturbation, or sex, helps by flexing the prostate—like a little fist squeezing out built-up fluids. It promotes prostate health. Plus, it feels good. Do it appropriately—not on the subway. Into a sock late at night, after the rest of the family is asleep. Just don’t do what I used to do—get lazy, get into bed, and wipe it on the dog.
Still—not on the dog. Not aggressively. Most of it went in the sock, but if you climax hard enough, it can soak through. Then you get some on your hand.
Jacobsen: What kind of socks are you using?
Rosner: Wigwam Super 60 athletic tube socks—knee-high. They help with my varicose veins.
Jacobsen: If socks could talk, you’d be in court. Why is male sexuality seen as sinister or perverted?
Rosner: Because… in some ways, it is. Look at it through the lens of sociobiology. In many species, sexual sneakiness is evolutionarily rewarded. Females are typically the ones who carry, give birth, and protect the offspring. Males, meanwhile, benefit reproductively if they can sneak a load in—because the female and her community then do all the work of raising the child.
Marriage, traditionally, is the agreement that the man sticks around to help raise the child in exchange for the assurance that the child carries his genes. But yes—sneakiness, deception, and even assault are embedded in the darker sides of male sexuality.
When I was in first grade, I got an assignment that got me in trouble. Mrs. Wright said, “Write a story about what it would have been like if you’d gone with Columbus to the New World.”
I sat there and thought—and realized I didn’t know anything. Neither did any other first grader. They wrote about meeting Indians and becoming friends. A sanitized fantasy. I didn’t turn anything in. The teacher called my parents and showed them the blank page as proof that I was not performing well. But if anyone had asked me, I would have said I was overperforming. I wasn’t going to fake knowledge.
And if I could go back to that moment, I’d write the truth: that going to the New World with Columbus would’ve mainly meant participating in rape and plunder. Not me personally—I’d be a lowly sailor. And I have a rule that’s protected me from the diseases of passion: I don’t put it in any wet holes.
Wetness spreads disease. So when I’m in port in Lisbon, I pay sex workers to jerk me off with a dry hand. But first, I examine the hand for any visible wounds. And I got a discount—because I wasn’t asking to go all the way. I wasn’t engaging in penetrative sex—just dry-hand assistance. That would’ve gotten me in even more trouble in first grade—but they would’ve been astonished by the depth of my historical imagination.
Jacobsen: So what would your version of the Columbus story have looked like?
Rosner: I would’ve written about a sailor who only accepts hand jobs, who has successfully avoided venereal disease, and who befriends a native woman. He gives her baubles; she returns the favour—it’s consensual, it’s mutual. Until, tragically, she’s raped by the other asshole sailors. All of which, honestly, would’ve been pretty accurate.
Jacobsen: And Columbus?
Rosner: A lying psychopath who came to enslave and murder. That would’ve been a fun essay for six-year-old me to write—and a nightmare for my teacher and parents to read. What a dumbass assignment I was given in 1966. I assume it was around Thanksgiving. Classic sanitized American myth-making.
Jacobsen:So what was your favourite academic assignment—K through 12?
Rosner: Hard to say. If I had a teacher who didn’t “get” me, I didn’t work very hard. But if I had a teacher, who did? I’d go all in.
Jacobsen:Anyone in particular?
Rosner: Miss Jones. I had her in both fifth and sixth grade. She figured out how to motivate me. In sixth grade, she gave me an algebra problem—this was before the tiger-parent era when kids were being pushed into calculus by the age of ten.
Jacobsen:And?
Rosner: I didn’t solve it with pure algebra—I spotted a pattern. I noticed how the numbers behaved as I approached the solution more closely. And eventually, I landed on the correct answer.
Jacobsen:Pattern recognition—excellent.
Rosner: Then, in ninth grade, I was in honours math, and I got assigned the class statistics project. Every year, the smartest kid got it. The assignment was to analyze the IQs of the entire ninth grade and compare them to the IQs of students in honours math.
Jacobsen:That’s a lot of sensitive data for a teenager.
Rosner: Right? It was a great stats exercise—but one kid got to see the IQs of 50 other students. I got paired with Lon Sherritt. His IQ was 105—the lowest in our group.
Jacobsen: And you kept that secret?
Rosner: For eight years. I had to lie to him. Then, years later, he became an electrical engineer. I asked him how that was possible with an IQ of 105. He told me he’d messed up the test—skipped a bubble, didn’t finish filling in his answers, started erasing, and then time was called.
Jacobsen: Classic standardized test panic.
Rosner: Yep. So, I held that data in my brain like a classified file. But the project was fun. I even built a BB-ball Gaussian curve—a physical model of a bell curve in 3D. Unnecessary. But I do dumb things. Like wiping jizz on the dog.
Jacobsen: And sexually harass your socks.
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