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EMBRACING YOUR FATHER:
How to Build the Relationship You Always Wanted with Your Dad

by Dr. Linda Neilsen © 2004

EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE... Dr. Linda Neilsen
Daughters: Strengthening Your Relationship with Your Father
Why is almost all of the advice on father-daughter relationships directed only at fathers? Once daughters have matured beyond childhood, why put so much responsibility or blame on fathers when problems arise or when the father-daughter relationship falls apart? Instead, let’s encourage daughters to be more active in creating the kind of relationship they want with their fathers by offering them a “roadmap through dad territory”. Let’s teach young women the specific skills and the non-sexist attitudes that enable them to strengthen their father-daughter relationships.
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TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento
A Journey to the Wilderness of the Soul
Author and therapist Larry Pesavento of CHRISTOS Men's Center invites you to join in the process of critiquing this book prior to it's publication. MENSIGHT will publish a chapter each month and we would like for you to submit suggestions and discuss your opinions on our Men's Issues Forum.

From chapter 1...  Most men today are burnt out and don't know it. Whether a success or a failure, these men men suffer from some of the symptoms of burnout: depression, anxiety, lack of motivation, chronic physical ailments, fatigue from overwork, addiction to alcohol, compulsive sexual activity, regular bouts of anger at home or at work. These symptoms are not acknowledged because we men have been taught to numb ourselves to any feelings that will keep us from our objectives.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Dr. Christiane Northrup
How Male Circumcision May be Affecting Your Love Life
"The sad truth is that throughout most of the 20th century, the American medical community has focused on finding reasons to remove the foreskin of newborn males instead of acknowledging Mother Nature's wisdom in including this highly sensitive tissue. Happily, more and more individuals are questioning circumcision's necessity and acknowledging its potential harm. Since 1980, the national circumcision rate has dropped by 30 percent, and an increasing number of physicians are finding the courage to refuse to perform the procedure.
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
Rules for Fathers
I watched a father and his thirteen-year old son play tennis for awhile the other day. When the father would miss shots he would often get angry and talk about how terrible his shot was. When the son began to miss shots and to get discouraged, his father called over to the other side, “Don’t get so negative!”
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
It Will Play Itself Out
Last night, however, I finally realized that I am going through a state of mourning. Not the weepy and pain-filled kind, I experienced some of that with the sudden and totally unexpected death of my father, this is a low-level sadness kind of thing. The kind that up and bites when you're not looking. It will show up when a piece of music plays for example. Last night it was, "Shenandoah." This piece can get to me on any given day depending on how well defended I am at the time. Generally I react to its haunting beauty, last night I found my self caught up in how-things-were ruminations. Not the classic "I wish things could have been different" thoughts, this was more like romanticizing about what it was like looking at the snapshots in an album and forgetting that they were posed for the instant and most of what went on in between was not all that wonderful.
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CELEBRATING MEN... monthly column by Alison A. Armstrong
Before You Buy the Bikini, Understand What The Bikini Will Buy You
Every year at this time, thousands (maybe millions) of women start to worry about bikini season. Some of us do something about it, like dieting and exercising, trying to get our bodies to look more like the women in magazines. Since we were teens, we have believed a babe in a bikini gets the boys. The better we look in a bikini, the belief goes, the better our chances of snagging a man’s attentions. In a superficial way, this is correct. The female form, scantily clad or otherwise, is sure to attract male attention. 
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
That Biting Cold
I never knew about silk underwear until Jill. Growing up, I had the firemen's checkered weave long-johns, off-white even before I wore them uninterrupted from Thanksgiving until Easter. But for the holidays one year recently Jill gave me a pair of silk long-johns from Eddie Bauer. Soon I got tops. Then more of each. They're airy, yet they keep me so warm I think they should be issued to astronauts. The oldest of them is also turning to threads, and beginning, I think, to smell. Maybe if I wash them the cold will leave.
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Go to New Reviews & Interviews... by J. Steven Svoboda.

MILITARY HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to the Veterans or Active Duty military in your life on our perpetual Military Honor Roll page
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FATHERS HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to your father (grandfather, great grandfather, etc.) on our perpetual Fathers Honor Roll page
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MENSIGHT Magazine is another free service of The Men's Resource Network, Inc. (MRN). It has grown out of the response that we have received from articles posted on TheMensCenter.com (TMC), our official web-site. The first issue went on-line on May 1, 2000. (Archive)

MENSIGHT is dedicated to publishing diverse articles for and about men. We believe that there are valuable lessons to be learned from the advocates of all the various men's issues.

MENSIGHT will publish articles, stories and information that will be welcomed by many and controversial to others. We offer the magazine for your edification but you are free to disagree or reject what you do not like. Be advised that we do not necessarily agree with every position that is expressed here.

We hope that you will be entertained, informed, educated, stimulated, and/or motivated by what you read here. We seek to empower men to be the authority of their own lives. We do not seek to tell men what to think or feel.