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Book of the Month... MAY 2002 |
By Malcolm Carruthers
This book describes the indentikit picture of the Male Menopause, or to give it its correct medical term the 'Andropause'. It shows it to be a true hormonal disturbance caused by a drop in the hormone that makes a man a man, testosterone. This produces not only the same drop in energy, drive, mood, and increased irritability and other symptoms that women can suffer at the menopause, but also loss of sex drive and impotence. What was once regarded as fiction is shown to be fact.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Glenn J. Sacks
New Survey Confirms Men Do Fair Share of Household Work
The recently released study shows that women do an average of 27 hours of housework a week, compared to 16 hours a week for men. Balanced against this, however, is the study's less-publicized finding that the average man spends 14 hours a week more on the job than the average woman. Thus men's overall contribution to the household is actually slightly higher than women's.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Laura Jones
The New Orleans Men’s Center: Modern Men Overcoming a “Detached” History
The New Orleans Men’s Center (NOMC) is a community of men who actively choose to celebrate their manhood, free from the bindings of “traditional” masculinity. The NOMC is truly a kinship of men, in that members develop strong rapports, friendships, and even closer, familial-like “clans.” The group, founded in 1990, is based on the same principles of other, analogous men’s circles, which are consequent of the late, twentieth century’s “men’s movement,” according to on informant (interview, April 7, 2002). These groups usually describe modern masculinity in similar terms as the Male Manifesto, which says, “Men are beautiful. Masculinity is life affirming and life supporting. Male sexuality generates life. The male body needs and deserves to be nurtured and protected.” This notion of manhood is a bold movement beyond the conventional, “masculine mystique,” which characterizes the “stronger sex” as “detached,” “competitive,” “sadistic,” “self-interested,” and “aggressive,”
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Forks On Roads
Jean has been a friend of mine since I was three. We stayed connected for the first twenty or so years of our lives. She was just a year younger than I and we were tight. We didn't attend the same "grammar" or high schools, but we double dated a lot when we were teens. She got into sex earlier than I did and paid the price for it by getting pregnant at 16 or so. She dropped out of high school and married the guy who just couldn't handle being a father. Nonetheless they had two more kids in quick succession and his way of coping was alcohol which led to his becoming more and more prone to violent behavior.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Best Laid Plans
An English teacher first handed me Of Mice and Men in ninth grade. First thing I noticed was the cover: a watercolor of two men's faces, one sharp and sad; the other, wearing a hat, happier under a broad-brimmed hat. I also noticed the book was thin, which is the handiest kind of classic to a ninth grader. There was also a lot of dialog, and the book ended with a gunshot. We all loved it. We mimicked Lennie whenever circumstances called for us to act stupid, which is also appealing to a ninth grader.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
Separation or Connection
Much of what has been written about love has been based on an assumption that fundamental to our existence we are beings who are inexorably separated from one another; that the distance between two human beings is impossible to bridge. And, furthermore, that one of our deepest, if not our very deepest desire, also an inextricable part of the human condition, is to transcend that fracture and connect with another person, with another soul.
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Book Reviews... J. Steven Svoboda |
Reviews Archive... Reviews of men's issues books by J. Steven Svoboda. New this month... The Abuse of Men: Trauma Begets Trauma Edited by Barbara Jo Brothers
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