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  • Teaching Masculinity: That’s What He Said

    Much of what is spoken about masculinity consists of double entendre.  It is rare to speak of shafts or poles without chuckling.  Forget anything about balls.  Even if the context fits—you are playing tennis and need to grab a few balls to play wit...
  • The (he)ART of the Pick-UP

    Cha-ching. Both sets of glands synchronize their sensual secretions in real time. Hearts begin to beat in resonance, drowning out the sounds of the surrounding party. Hungry eyes stare at each other across spaces charged with desire and long, far-from...
  • Fathers Day In The Hall

    Just in time for father's day is a new project for gender equity that starts with fathers, family members, educators, and coaches. It Starts With You. It Stays With Him. launched itself into the world last week with the leadership of the White Ribbon Ca...
  • Sex ed for boys

    When most people think about sexual health education, reproductive choice, breakups, sexual assault, and other meaningful issues regarding sex they usually think of women. And if you look at websites discussing this stuff you'll almost always find femal...
  • So You Think You Can Dance (like a man?)

      So I don't really THINK about dancing much and maybe that's why I love doing it. I just move to the music and connect myself with what I hear and feel, simple really.But after hearing about and watching some male dancing recently, I just had to make a...
  • Men in Power?

    Recently the national news media jumped all over the story out of the University of Chicago that an undergraduate there, Steve Saltarelli, had started a “men’s advocacy” group called Men in Power (MiP). While the group claims to be a professional ...
  • Friends in Faux Places: In Defense of Entourage

    I've been watching a lot of Entourage lately. The HBO series is often hyped as Sex & the City for guys, which isn't that far off. The show revolves around Vincent Chase, a swaggering pretty boy who moves from Queens to L.A. to become a movie star....
  • To Your Health

    I've been reading this textbook Tuval got from the library called Men's Lives and it's a pretty good primer on masculinity.  It's got 10 chapters: Perspectives on Masculinity Boyhood Collegiate Masculinities Men and Work Men and Health Men in...

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