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Good Men—and Women—Weigh in on Promiscuity
The results are in: a qualitative analysis of the exclusive GMP survey on promiscuity. When How About We reported that the 2010 “Great American Male“ survey conducted by AskMen had lowered the...
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The Results are In: You Can’t Measure Promiscuity
An analysis of the exclusive GMP survey on promiscuity. When How About We reported that the 2010 “Great American Male“ survey conducted by AskMen had lowered the threshold on a woman being considered...
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What’s Your Number? Here’s Why I Don’t Care
Does it really matter how many people you’ve slept with? Emily Heist Moss doesn’t think so. The previews for the Anna Faris vehicle What’s Your Number couldn’t make me want to see that movie any less...
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Why Do We Fear Being Seen as Too Promiscuous?
Megan Rosker wonders: Is it possible that deep down we believe a promiscuous person is going to cheat on us? It is commonly understood that men and women are judged differently when it comes to...
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Masculine Sexuality: What Gets Overlooked
Dr. Ley argues that the oft-blamed trope of “sex addiction” isn’t real. —- Almost anywhere you turn these days, if a man’s sexuality is news, it is usually news in a bad way. In the media, when a man...
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Indecisive, Slutty, and Closeted: Bisexual Men in 3 Stereotypes
Tobias is everything you expect bi men to be, and then some. It hit me when I was planning out an article about how not all bi men are indecisive, slutty, and suckers for the sweet allure of...
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Challenging Casanova: Beyond the Stereotype of the Promiscuous Young Male...
Andrew Smiler, with some very unconventional wisdom about young men and sexuality. Alex (not his real name) was a college senior when he agreed to be interviewed for my study of young men’s sexual...
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A Chronic Cheater
An unfaithful man ends up alone, taking a fearless personal inventory, and vows to change. Maybe I deserve for you to go out and find some other guy Maybe I deserve for you to stay out with him all...
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Condom Conundrums: Screwing Around Without Protection
Andrew Smiler explores why the most promiscuous guys are the least likely to use condoms. A recent-ish study by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that nearly 90% of...
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Fact or Fiction: Do Guys Want Lots of Sexual Partners?
Andrew Smiler reviews the numbers and concludes that the idea guys want lots of different partners is fiction. —- The idea that guys want lots of sexual partners is central to our culture’s...
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Does Sex Increase Your Self-Esteem?
Mark Manson observes the ways in which guys become more confident when they have more sex… but it’s far from a simple solution. In fact, it can become an unhealthy cycle. – In my book Models: Attract...
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Promiscuity Without Entitlement, for Men
Angelus Morningstar explains how men can enjoy being promiscuous without having to resort to pick-up tactics and other behaviors that can demean their sexual partners. Content Warning: Rape...
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Men Singing about Fidelity: New in Pop Radio
Dr. Andrew Smiler discusses the oddity of a pop song that describes a man refusing a hookup. —- I’m listening to my local pop radio station and out of nowhere, this guy starts singing about turning...
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What My Partner Got Because I Wasn’t a Virgin
View image | gettyimages.com And because I wasn’t a virgin – in fact, very far from it – when I met my now partner and the father of my one-year-old son, I am able to give my partner more of me. —...
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Many Oppose Gay Marriage Because Of All The Wild Gay Sex They Can’t Stop...
Embed from Getty Images Why are straight people always picturing gay couples having sex? — Dear socially conservative straight people, We think it’s great you’ve decided to get married and raise a...
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My Wanton Promiscuity: What Led to It & How I Changed
Embed from Getty Images — The great thing about the Facebook feature “On This Day”—that invention where you get to see what you posted on this date in 2012 and this date in 2016—is that it becomes a...
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Relationship Baggage – Too Many Loves or Too Many Lovers?
Embed from Getty Images A young man asked me: “Many lovers or many loves? What is worse baggage to have when entering a new relationship? A numerous amount of people you have slept with but had no...
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Sex & Drugs Made Me a Man
Jesse Kornbluth thinks character and hard work are great and all, but this essay is about women (oh, and drugs too). Everything I know about being a man I learned from women, especially when we were...
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What You Can Expect From an Authoritarian, Part 3
In the first two posts in the series called “Healing the Authoritarian Wound” I described 20 traits and behaviors of the authoritarian personality, 20 of the “terrible 30” traits and behaviors...
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Most Women Don’t Want a “Chad”
“I’ve had sex with sixty-three women in my life…and I only ever cared about four of them.” I once overheard this conversation in a public cafe. It was an elderly man, probably in his 70s, recounting...
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