Why don't men want to talk about their prostate?

This question haunts me. In today's world, there is no reason not to know.

I understand the older generation not wanting to talk about it. We came from a time when you did not talk about your business, your family, or anything really. Men were supposed to be an island, and women were the bedrock of the family.

Men sixty and older did not talk about their prostates because anything below the belt might lead to an uncomfortable conversation. People might think you were less of a man to admit you had an issue "down there." It seems ridiculous now, but it was a fact of growing up in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Nobody really talked. If you were lucky enough to find someone to share your life with, then you could open up.

Today everyone shares everything. Publicly, proudly. Nothing seems sacred.

So why do men still not talk about the prostate?

Why are there still stories about men diagnosed with a cancer they did not know they had and did not see coming?

Here is the truth. I did not know I had a prostate issue either. Sixteen years ago a friend pointed it out to me at an airport. Without him, I might never have known to look.

Early detection is the key to prostate cancer. Caught early, men survive and go on for decades.

Do not be one of those men. Do not let yours be the family where the cancer spread because nobody knew.

Get checked. Remove the doubt.

So here is my question for you. Vote in the poll below, then put your reasons in the comments. That is where the real conversation starts.

Why do you think the man in your life will not talk about his prostate?

From a generation that does not discuss anything below the belt

Afraid of what the doctor might find

Thinks it is just part of getting older

Does not want to seem less of a man

Nobody has ever made it easy for him to bring it up