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Get Real! How Do I Tell My Boyfriend I Don't Think He's Ready for Sex Yet?

By Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com

October 20, 2009 - 6:00am

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People are too often not as concerned as they should be about a partner's readiness for sex, often assuming males are "always ready." This pervasive double standard hurts both men and women.

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Values Voters Summit Promotes 'New Masculinity' of Ignorance and Fury

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

September 21, 2009 - 7:00am

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The Family Research Council wants you to be manly. So the Values Voter Summit, the annual confab of ultra-conservative political and religious leaders, tried to be hip with a fundamentalist-inspired reenactment of "Mad Men."

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Men Can, and Should, Stop Rape

By Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check

April 15, 2009 - 7:00am

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At the Men Can Stop Rape conference in DC, a 40% male participant group brainstormed on evolving masculinity, gender relations, re-examining marital rape, and innovations coming from the federal government.

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Feminism and the New Great Depression: What's Next?

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

March 19, 2009 - 10:24am

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Looks like feminism’s at a crossroads, and there’s a very surprising group that could hold the key to the future of the movement: men. (So does this mean I should go buy my goldfish a new bike?)


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Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women Is a Men's Issue

By T. M. Lindsey, New Journalist Fellow

June 3, 2008 - 7:00am

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Jackson Katz, an internationally recognized educator on violence prevention among men and boys, asks why rape is a "women's issue" when over 99 percent of rapes are perpetrated by men.

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Hagee's Church of Easy Answers

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

May 7, 2008 - 7:35am

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Feel like you're not the man you thought you could be? Your local megachurch has a solution: every woman deprived of her reproductive rights, every gay person deprived of the right to marry suddenly makes you look manly by comparison.

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Real Men, Real Sexual Health Needs

By Danielle Toppin, RH Reality Check, Caribbean

August 29, 2007 - 8:12am

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Talking about men's sexual health needs means being open about masculinity.


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