Growing Balls: Personal Power for Young Men is a concise self-help book focusing on the serious subject of helping young men to avoid the pitfalls of premature marriage and fatherhood. Directly addressing issues of integrity versus bravado (false balls), sexuality, substance use, intimacy, maturity,”falling in love” and friendship, Growing Balls is like an owner’s manual, “a primer” for young men. The author’s voice is that of an older mentor (and a psychotherapist) who makes references to conversations with his friends, other men in their 40′s and 50′s, who wonder, “If I only knew then what I know now!”