VICE Health

When most people find someone attractive, they are drawn to a person, a face, a body, a laugh, or a brain. Symbiosexuality operates on a completely different frequency—an attraction not to individuals, but to the energy two people create together.

A man notices something different about his chest and does one of two things: he convinces himself it’s nothing, or he convinces himself it’s cancer. Either way, he probably doesn’t call a doctor.

The confusion between gynecomastia—actual breast tissue growth—and male breast cancer is a big part of what’s driving that silence.