Our male reviewers are comprised of 20 volunteers dedicated to learning the truth about health, beauty, and lifestyle products. Our 20 men range from 23-65 years of age, and are all alumni from an unnamed fraternity at a well respected California university.
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Name: Roderigo "Salty" Sanchez
Age: 41
Year
of Graduation: 1990
Current
Occupation: General Contractor |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
Though I studied Engineering, I realized right after graduation
that I was all set with going to any more school. I started
my own construction company at 28, and 10 years later, I have
my own company with a great reputation for drywall installation
and repair here in the Bay Area. I have been married for 14
years, which I sometimes refer to as "13 years too many."
Sometimes I wish I had finished school, but hell, I'm outside
in the sun all day, I'm making a good living, and I'm my own
boss. Not bad. |
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Name: Kenneth Ng
Year
of Graduation: 2002
Current
Occupation: Accountant |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I'm an accountant, but for me it's not all about crunching numbers.
When I'm not chained to the calculator, believe me, I'm out
there taking hardcore risks. For me, it's all about thrillseeking.
Friends have pointed out to me that whenever I'm faced with
two choices, I always seem to pick the one that involves the
most risk -- and they're totally right. I have this built in
need for danger I guess. Whether it's rock-climbing, bungee-jumping,
dirtbike driving, tightrope walking, fire-eating, you name it,
I've done it, and I'll keep doing it until I've tried every
crazy, risky thing out there! My girlfriend thinks I'm totally
crazy, and sometimes gets serious about putting my health in
danger. The way I look at it, humans have an inner need for
danger and challenge that the modern world takes away -- and
I'm just doing what I can to keep that urge satisfied. |
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Name: Oriole Browns
Year
of Graduation: 1974
Current
Occupation: Carpenter |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I’m a blue-collar guy through and through, I’m not
ashamed to admit. My old school friends are all academics now,
and they’re great people -- I just realized that a life
behind a desk isn’t for me. I need to be out among people,
I need to be using my body, lifting things, breaking a sweat.
I was an apprentice plumber for awhile, now I’m into carpentry.
It’s not so bad, but it’s tough on the roofs during
the summer. I’m
married and I have a kid, a beautiful little baby girl named
Samantha. She definitely has my eyes.
Oh,
and a word about my name. As a baby they’d call me oriole.
I think it was because I used to stare at the birds outside
the window. Or it might’ve been because I used to try
to flap my wings and fly off the tables and chairs. I’m
not really sure, to be honest. But it stuck! |
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Name: Donnie Jamieson
Year
of Graduation: 1996
Current
Occupation: Marketing Director |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I fell in love with my best friend’s girl right before
we graduated. What a scene! They were fully together for most
of college, but starting seriously drifting apart in the last
six months of school. It all started when I totaled my sweet
little Targa T-Top Classic 1972 Porsche at the very beginning
of senior year. I never insured the damn thing so I was left
with no car for the rest of school. Daisy and I were already
good friends & rave partners, but now she was giving me
rides everywhere as well so we spent a ton of time together.
I never thought I had a crush on her, but I did think she was
pretty & she had a stellar ass. We both felt the mutual
spark one night when we took mushrooms at full-moon party. I
didn’t usually take psychedelics (except ‘E’
which doesn’t count), but there is something cool about
your inhibitions disappearing and laying it all on the line
in a pure moment of honesty. Anyway, Daisy and I are still together
and in love 8 years later. |
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Name: Sebastian del Torres
Year
of Graduation: 1994
Current
Occupation: Insurance Agent |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
My partner and I just moved from Las Vegas to New York City.
I was offered a position I couldn’t refuse. Leaving our
friends and family behind was tough. We both are trying to adjust
to the hustle-and-bustle of the city, the environment, the cold,
and just how things are done here. This city has a similar feel
as Las Vegas, but in a much different way. Things are going
OK but we both know it can and will be much better. I look out
my window every night at the skyline of New York and know that
anything you want to do is available in that city. Having said
that, there is no doubt in my mind that things will change for
the better soon. |
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Name: Giles Jurecz
Year
of Graduation: 2002
Current
Occupation: Electronics Repairman |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I’m just Giles, plain Giles. There’s not much special
about me. I’m just what you call an average, humble guy.
I don’t have any pretensions, I’m just me -- plain
Giles. It’s not that I’m boring. I just like to
be on the level, steady, in control. I don’t have any
extreme hobbies, I don’t have any passions. The way I
look at it, that kind of lifestyle puts in you in the grave
early. I’m
divorced, and I’m an electronics repairman, and I have
a 1978 Lincoln Towncar which I love very much. I make house-calls,
I fix people’s VCRs and televisions mostly. Dvd players
too. Nothing fancy -- just the normal stuff.
I’m still dating. Hopefully the right woman will come
along and appreciate me for just me -- just Giles, no frills,
just the basics. |
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Name: Rob J. Maddox
Year
of Graduation: 1995
Current
Occupation: Commercial Botanist |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I hate these things. Like I'm supposed to be able to tell you
anything meaningful about myself in under 250 words? Here we
go: I am 33, single, no kids, and I sit in a greenhouse practically
all day, every day. I don't watch TV, and the last good book
I read was "Concrete Island" by JG Ballard. I don't
really do anything in my spare time because frankly, I don't
HAVE any spare time. Actually, now that I think about it, I
am very, very lonely. Great. Thanks. |
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Name: Damon Lampard
Year
of Graduation: 2004
Current
Occupation: Financial Analyst |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
My buddies and I love to travel. All we do is save our money
for that next road trip, weekend away or vacation. When we travel,
we sometimes see the sites during the day, but our goal is the
nightlife. Whether it’s in Montreal, Los Angeles or Thailand,
we are up in the late hours exploring the club scene and seeing
what these cities have to offer. |
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Name: Ian Fredrickson
Year
of Graduation: 1990
Current
Occupation: Industrial Engineer |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I guess I am what one might call an ugly duckling. My whole
adolescence was spent chasing girls who never had the slightest
interest in me. Many girls made fun of me or just said that
I was just a really great friend. I never thought that would
change. It wasn’t until I was in college, when I finally
started to get the girls’ attention. I was working out
and taking care of myself and finally I was being noticed. I
was never really sexually active in high school but never thought
it would be an issue. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
Finally I had the looks to grab the girls’ attention,
but I was completely lacking in the bedroom. I thought my life
was over. Overlooked in high school and now to have problems
like this, I thought I would be alone forever. I went from girl
to girl never really being comfortable with myself long enough
to stay with a girl. That was until I met Julie. She was everything
I ever wanted and she accepted me for me. I was interested in
this study for many reasons, but really deep down I wanted to
know that I had left that ugly duckling behind and that I could
satisfy Julie the way she satisfies me. |
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Name: Ron Franklin
Year
of Graduation: 1998
Current
Occupation: Fashion Merchandiser |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
Always comfortable with my sexuality, I was very expressive
growing up. Now that continues in my life. I have a great job
and am pretty much on track with where I would like to be in
life. Most of my free time is spent shopping or just out with
the girls, or boys, if I’m lucky :) I often spend Saturday
morning walking my dog Rainbow in the park, or I meet Giles,
for a game of racket ball. Giles is a very special friend, and
Rainbow loves him. I try to live my life as freely as possible
and am always open to new experiences and am willing to try
anything at least once, well maybe even a few times. I love
going to the club and dancing all night, just meeting new people
and being free. |
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Name: Ashton Salzer
Year
of Graduation: 1984
Current
Occupation: Interior Designer |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
My name is Ashton, but my friends call me Ash. I currently live
in Malibu with my wife, Sophie, and my daughter, Alyssa. Our
uptown cat, Haze, has never been outside in his entire life…YES,
we named him after the Hendrix album because when we first got
him Sophie used to blow the smoke from her bong rips in his
face and get him stoned. I told her to stop that because he
might be weird when he grows up, but I think she still did it
when I wasn’t looking. Haze turned out fine and Sophie
hasn’t burned since she got pregnant. Our wild party days
are over, but we make exotic & quality cocktails almost
nightly. I put 6-10 different ingredients in my state-of-the-art
Bloody Mary and Sophie’s staple drink is a Cosmo with
Grand Marnier (not Cointreau). I also love Belgian beer and
keep Chimay on hand at all times. Alyssa is only three-years-old
and the prissy high-maintenance princess already wants a cell
phone. She will probably be the biggest bitch by the time she
is 14, but we love her….so anyone that thinks she is a
bitch can piss off. We are a happy family but I think Haze needs
a girlfriend. |
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Name: Steve Laminski
Year
of Graduation: 2001
Current
Occupation: Waiter |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I usually wake up at 5:45 every morning, feed my dog meatloaf,
and read the morning funnies with a cup of coffee. I pretty
much laze around my apartment all day until its time for work.
Oh work, the same mundane work, never interesting, never exciting.
Well I guess its ok I pretty much don’t really care about
work. I am mainly focused on my stamp collection. I have been
collecting stamps since I was a little kid and have actually
put together a pretty impressive collection. I have this theory
that there is a stamp out there for every feeling, moment, or
aspect of life, and that if one finds the right stamps they
can almost see their future in the stamps. I know it sounds
crazy but had this strangely vivid dream where it was all explained
so thoroughly to me, and since that day I have randomly found
stamps that in some form or another have shaped my life or actually
been a prevision of things to come. |
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Name: Jason Stratton
Year
of Graduation: 1990
Current
Occupation: Stock Broker |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I ended up being at school for seven years. It wasn’t
that I failed classes, I just didn’t really want to graduate.
I loved our fraternity and just didn’t want the party
to end. I am still an active alumni, and I fly back to Cali
for every event. My trip back in 1996 was the craziest. One
of the new pledges, Ryan, was this rich daddy’s boy and
he had his own 6-seater airplane. A few of us dinosaurs had
the current actives order Ryan to take us out flying…we
thought a quick trip to San Fran would be sweet. Half-way into
the trip Ryan started warming up to us and he began to do some
aerial tricks. His favorite was dropping the plane like 1,000
feet in 2 seconds. I swear, my face was eating the ceiling when
he pulled that shit. It was all fun and awesome at the time,
but Ryan didn’t realize he was throwing off the gauges...in
fact, he thought we were about 100 feet further from the ground
than we really were. Sure enough, when we were landing in San
Fran, it was one of those foggy nights. You couldn’t see
3 feet infront of your face. So when we came in, Ryan thought
we were still 100 feet from the ground when we crashed into
it. Man, we crashed hard, broke the landing gear right off,
drove the propellers into the ground, and we slid on the belly
of the plane about 1000 feet across the runway. There were sparks
everywhere and flames started underneath the plane…we
were shitting our pants. When she came to a stop, we got the
hell out and started running down the runway. A few seconds
later she blew! There was nothing left of the plane but scattered
torched pieces. Not one of us had a scrape on us…but Ryan
was emotionally damaged forever. I heard he never flew again.
I feel a little responsible – kinda like I totaled his
plane. On top of that, I couldn’t even get a flight back
to LA until the next day. |
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Name: Aaron Matthieu
Year
of Graduation: 1995
Current
Occupation: English Teacher |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I never really thought I would get into teaching, but after
moving to New York City after graduation I found myself in a
pretty tough economy. I tried a bunch of different jobs, including
working for a publishing company, bartending, and even working
for a while in a tire store. I realized after a while that I
simply wasn't getting anything started, and did my coursework
to get my teaching certificate. Now that I am teaching English
here in Brooklyn, I think I finally found a good way to spend
the rest of my life. My kids are bright, and most of them seem
to actually want to learn...and most surprisingly, I have found
that I actually have something to teach them. |
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Name: Tim Obrez
Year
of Graduation: 1989
Current
Occupation: Financial Analyst |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I had been out of college for almost a year and was having the
worst luck with both my job search and my love life. I was a
pretty laid back guy, and the last thing I ever expected was
for this tornado of a girl to come barreling into my life when
she did. She got me to do some pretty crazy shit (at least for
me), and the sex was insane. I fell in love with her despite
her insanity and because she was a nymphomaniac. |
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Name: Martin Goodman
Year
of Graduation: 2005
Current
Occupation: Physics Major |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I just graduated from college and have been using my free time
bartending 3 nights a week. Everyone keeps asking me the same
question, ‘you graduated with a degree in physics, why
are you working in a bar?” I don’t know the answer
to that question. All I know is I like to bartend and I know
I like this job. One day, I may use what I learned in school
about the Grand Unified Theory and Quarks, but for now, I am
content. |
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Name: Jonathan Frazier
Year
of Graduation: 1979
Current
Occupation: Musician |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
We all get older, and it's always been fine for me. I have all
my hair, and my wife says I have the same body as when we got
married. In fact, I think I could pass for someone nearly half
my age. |
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Name: A.J. Manitoba
Year
of Graduation: 1980
Current
Occupation: Agronomics Professor |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
My occupation is an agronomics professor, but I consider the
entire world my textbook. I’m
married and I have three kids, and I sincerely hope all three
will follow in my footsteps. I think there’s something
special in upholding a family tradition -- I don’t think
people do this much anymore. My father was an agronomics professor
before me. Honestly though, if one of my sons went into agriculture,
or horticulture, or something related to agronomics, I’d
probably be satisfied with this decision.
Beyond my profession, I love nature, especially hunting. Every
winter my father and I hunt in the great woods of Minnesota
for quail and deer. I myself favor the small crossbow. |
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Name: Sean Persson
Year
of Graduation: 1964
Current
Occupation: Equity Broker |
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Us a Little Something About Yourself:
I live hard and play hard. Usually, during the week, I put in
10-11 hour days. I do not have any free time. On the weekends,
it is nothing but relaxation. I do not think or talk about work.
I usually spend it by the pool with my girlfriend or jet skiing
on Lake Havasu. |
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Name: Jeremy Donaldson
Year
of Graduation: 1977
Current
Occupation: Architect |
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Tell
Us a Little Something About Yourself:
When I was a junior in college, I met my future wife, Catelin.
Catelin and I would take weekend trips down the coast of Southern
California and spend the whole weekend making love. It was great
and honestly I think it is what really kept us together through
the rest of college. |
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