Sure, the recession sent more men into the home to take on the role of caregiving father, but was that the trend even before the economic downturn? Al Watts investigates. It’s Tax Week again, an opportunity to assess how the nation is recovering from a recession. The prevailing story is that the recession briefly changed […]
After Ann Romney admits that she often raised six boys, not just her five sons, Hugo Schwyzer wonders if Mitt Romney’s latest attempt to gain likeability among voters simply perpetuates the myth that men are nothing more than overgrown boys. Are we ready for a Peter Pan Presidency? Judging from one campaign ad, perhaps we […]
Hugo Schwyzer says that a man can redirect his desires away from young girls, but doing so requires three serious steps. Can the age of the people to whom we are most attracted age with us, or is it doomed to stay stuck at one particular chronological point? Our culture teaches us that female desirability […]
Hugo Schwyzer tackles a new book by Eric Anderson, which claims that men are by nature polyamorous creatures, and attempting to stay within the confines of a monogamous relationship will almost certainly lead to resentment or straying. Is monogamy an unattainable ideal? According to increasingly popular wisdom, it seems to be. One new book suggests […]
This originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Who calls and reserves a table for one in a restaurant? Dan Griffin has learned to enjoy his own company. Just the other night I went out to dinner while out of town for work. I left my iPhone in the room knowing […]
This originally appeared at No Longer Quivering. Republished here with permission. (We republished Part I of this piece here.) I’ve written a few times about how the modesty doctrine hurts women. Now it’s time to switch lenses. The modesty doctrine also wreaks havoc on the minds of young men in the Christian patriarchy movement. Here’s how: It teaches men to be […]
Hugo Schwyzer weighs in on the recent shooting of Trayvon Martin and points to white men’s long history of fearing black men as the root cause. I thought about starting this essay with a stock phrase, saying that the now-infamous February 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin has “reopened an old wound.” But in reading about […]
This originally appeared on RealAdultSex.com. Republished here with permission. Kind of weird what you get when you run that L.A. Times article about Tim Gunn’s 29 years of celibacy through Regender.com. The original article is kind of a piece of work. The reporter (and, evidently tens of thousands of people querying Google) are somewhere between […]
Sex + Relationships Editor Clarisse Thorn speaks with Mark Manson, a former men’s dating coach, about the pickup artist community, self-esteem issues, and how improving your relationship with your partner begins with improving yourself. I first met Mark Manson while researching “pickup artists,” also known as the “seduction community”—a group of guys who trade tips […]
Because reproduction requires both men and women, Misty McLaughlin says the War on Women is more accurately a War on People, and asks men to take responsibility for their part. In a beautiful twist on the gruesome women’s-health-as-political-theater we’ve all been subjected to lately, female legislators in two states have introduced bills to limit men’s […]
Media in English-speaking culture, largely written by men, tends to give us the impression that women are all attractive and can pretty much have sex whenever they want. They just have to agree to whatever offers from men are on the table right now. We men, on the other hand, have to earn sex, and what we look like […]
Hugo Schwyzer says the “complementarian” theory—that men and women were created to occupy separate but parallel spheres, each doing for the other what the other could not do for themselves—isn’t just insulting to both genders, it’s bad math. What are women for? That’s the question James Poulos posed recently in the Daily Caller. As part […]
