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Book-Of-The-Month excerpt... by Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young © 2006
Introduction...
Males are not faring well at all in a society that is now focused explicitly on the needs and problems of females and is often hostile to the very possibility that males might have any distinct needs and problems of their own. Rapid social change and depression have been listed as causes of these problems, but the question is why these factors affect men, especially young men, much more than they do women.
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New Men's Issues Website:  THE BOYS PROJECT

The mission of The Boys Project is to help young males develop their capabilities and reach the potential that their families and teachers know they have. The Boys Project seeks to accomplish for young men what the Girls Project so successfully accomplished for young women--- to increase academic skills, to increase college success, and to develop the confidence, drive, and determination to contribute to American society.

THE "BOY CRISIS"
Since the late 1970's, young women have soared in college attendance while young men have stagnated. Young men's literacy is declining. Many young men are disengaging from school. Young men are less likely to be valedictorians, to be on the honor roll, and to be active in organizations like student government. Young men are more likely to get D's and F's, to be suspended or expelled from school, to drop out of school, and to commit suicide.

We are losing young boys to a sense of failure that comes from schooling poorly adapted to their needs. We are losing adolescent males to the depression that comes from feeling neither needed nor respected. We are losing young men to life tracks that include neither college nor any other energetic endeavor.

Related Newsweek feature: THE TROUBLE WITH BOYS

Guest Article... by Michael Gurian
What Could He Really Be Thinking about Sex and Romance?...
There are few areas of life in which the differences in male and female neurochemistry show up as well as in the romance and sex that dominate the early stages of a love relationship. PET scans, MRIs, endocrinological studies, and galvanic skin-response tests now show us how the brains of men and women function when they explore the mysteries of lust and love. Every hope and dream we bring to a candlelit dinner is touched by our nature - our hormones, brain chemicals, and key parts of the brain.
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External Link... KGO-TV San Francisco
Concern Grows Over College Gender Gap: Women Overtaking Men
After years of trying to lure young women to college, some universities are now trying to attract more men. The number of girls going to college has been rising for 30 years. For many people, that's cause for celebration. But there's also concern over what's happening to boys.
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Men's Worklife... by Marty Nemko
Converting an Idea to Moneymaker...
You've got an idea for a new business. Alas, ideas are a dime a dozen. Here's how to turn your concept into a moneymaker.
Let's say your idea is an online service that matches mentors with protégés. You figure that most people wish they had a mentor, but rarely find one. And other people enjoy being mentors, but nobody's asking. So why not create an online mentor/protégé matching service? After all, if match.com and eharmony.com make millions of dollars matching romantic partners, why not a service to match those seeking a mentor with those wanting to be one? .
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Guest Article... by Glenn Sacks
Are American Husbands Slackers?...
In the wake of the death of feminist pioneer Betty Friedan, many women’s advocates are asserting that the revolution she began is only half complete: career opportunities have opened up for women, but these careers are being undermined and sabotaged by women’s disproportionate and unfair household obligations.
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Guest Article... by Robert Glover, Ph.D.
“why are women attracted to jerks instead of nice guys like me?”...
So what’s the answer? Become a “jerk?” Treat women badly? Smack them around? Or maybe spend lots of money on “Seduction” books, videos and workshops and become a “Geek with Techniques?” You can learn to “peacock” and “neg” but that doesn’t guarantee you’ll ever get past the “number close” or even know what to talk about if you do.
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
I Thought I was Seeing a Ghost...
But no! The Count Basie Band is not only alive, it's well and it's SWINGING!
OK, this is what I'm talking about, we, Elizabeth, elder-daughter-in-residence Lia, and I took a trip to the other side of the moon... about sixty miles through the city in traffic, so not just sixty miles down-the-road which to us is routine, this was a major journey to the town, OK the city! of Rio Rancho across the Rio Grande from Albuquerque, which thrives on terrible traffic and new construction.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
Intimacy at First sight...
No doubt, you've heard it said that love can happen in an instant. You see a stranger across a crowded room and, whammo, your heart flutters, temperature rises, your stomach is suddenly popping and fizzing, and what feels like destiny is taking you for a ride. You hadn't planned for it, hadn't even expected it, but there it is. Love at first sight. Wow!
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Alex 2...
Paperclipped to to the letter I sent to my publisher, dated February 25, 2004, is one business card, for Jeffslife.net. I have two cards now, one for this site and other for Alex. Back then I had one. My signature at the bottom of the letter has no mention of the first book. Why would it have then, as the letter is like a fading Polaroid of a moment I'd forgotten and must now remember. Time has come for another book. As Cousin Carol says, and she's been quoted by many, "Don't rest on your laurels."  
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
Oh No, the Sex Talk...
I was ten years old, and I was scared.
My older brother had just informed me that my dad would be giving me the “sex talk.” Apparently, he had just gotten his talk earlier in the evening, and my dad was “making the rounds.”
I sat and tried to digest this. Our family had never talked about sex. It wasn’t on our radar, along with a number of other topics. In fact, my father didn’t talk to us much about anything those days, let alone about sex. And now he was going to talk to me one-on-one about sex?
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TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento

From chapter 15... Other Side of the Heart
The similarity between great spiritual traditions and the journey of psychological manhood is close enough that the tools and descriptions and insights of the great religious traditions can also be used here very fruitfully. So I can use the terms wilderness and other side, wilderness within and inner life, psyche and unconscious and soul interchangeably. For they refer to the same place. And this place is where the ordeal takes place. This place is where the transformation from boy to man happens. Indigenous peoples knew that, mystics have known that, psychologists, like Scott Peck, now know that.

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LATEST REVIEWS

REVIEW: Straight Talk for Men about Marriage: What Men Need to Know About Marriage (And What Women Need to Know About Men)
By Martin G. Friedman ©2006
The author has put together an appealingly presented, male-friendly guide to improving the quality of our marriages. As Friedman is the first to point out, this isn’t exactly rocket science. We need to learn to do the basics. A marriage is a path to learning about ourselves. Projecting our discontent onto our spouse doesn’t do either of us any favors.
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REVIEW: Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey into Manhood and Back Again
By Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent has produced a new book whose simple underlying concept nevertheless seems to possess all the potential power of, say, John Howard Griffin’s classic Black Like Me, in which the Caucasian author masqueraded as a black man and was astonished at the depths of the discrimination and barriers he discovered.  Author Vincent tries to do the same thing for gender, dressing in drag as “Ned” and entering various supposed male bastions to report on what she discovers.
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REVIEW: The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams:
Planning Together for Less Stress and More Joy
By By Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski
Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski, husband-and-wife psychologists and authors of three books previously reviewed by me in these pages (The New Intimacy, Opening to Love 365 Days a Year, and Be Loved for Who You Really Are) have just published a new book on their favorite topic, love and marriage. In a literal sense, The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams covers a narrower subject than any of their three previous books.  But actually, predictably enough given the authors’ excellent writing skills and tireless, creative devotion to promoting passion, their latest offering manages to transcend the limits of the genre of wedding guides.  Not seeing a book that went beyond the technicalities of wedding planning and touched the spirit of the event, they took the plunge and wrote it!
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REVIEW: Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship
By Hal Stone and Sidra Stone © 2006
Hal and Sidra Stone are, like Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski (whose latest book is reviewed elsewhere in this issue) a husband-and-wife psychologist team who have written a number of books and who travel the world giving workshops on their techniques for improving one’s life and relationships.  Partnering does not represent a stunning advance on the authors’ previous work but it does expand, in the specific context of relationships, on the work they have helped pioneer in exploring the multiple selves each of us contains through the voice dialogue technique.
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REVIEW: The Prodigal Father: A True Story of Tragedy, Survival, and Reconciliation in an American Family.
By Jon DuPre.
Jon DuPre’s achievement with “The Prodigal Father” is stupefying. What this correspondent for Fox Network News has done is so simple: He has told the story of his family of origin, consisting of two brothers, himself, and his mother and father. As a novel, the book would fail. For one thing, the plot would be utterly unbelievable! But “The Prodigal Father” is billed as an “autobiography,” and written with loving detail and self-revelation so honest and so deep that took my breath away. As such, it is utterly compelling and simultaneously completely credible.
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REVIEW: Gendercide and Genocide
Edited by Adam Jones © 2006
Apart from the rarest exceptions (such as the not-to-be-missed “Female ‘Circumcision’ in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change,” Edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund), edited volumes tend to be hit-and-miss affairs. It’s hard enough simply to find an appropriate topic, to accumulate contributions that are varied enough to provide interest but not so different that they work at cross-purposes, and to publish the work. Maintaining a razor-like focus as can easily be done with an individually authored book by definition becomes almost impossible with an edited volume.
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