Steven’s Blog
Problems and Conditions of Boys and Men – Part 2.1
Boys and men are struggling in the U.S. and across the globe. Here are the first six problems and conditions for boys and men identified by Richard Reeves in his book, Of Boys and Men – Why The Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What To...
Of Boys and Men – Revisitation of a Crisis in Six Parts
What is needed is a positive vision of masculinity that is compatible with gender equality. We need a prosocial masculinity for a postfeminist world. ~ Richard Reeves*, Of Boys and Men We don’t have to be androgynous to be equal. ~ Richard Reeves...
Why Am I Interested in Heterosexual Sex and Heterosexual Relationships?
“All human life stems from the reality of, and difference between, men and women.” ~ Nina Power, What Do Men Want?, 2022 In “How Should Feminists Have Sex Now?,” a recent article in the Atlantic magazine, it struck me that this question, in one...
Not Just Listening – “A Little Big-Dick Energy”
According to internet memes and posts by women, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the sexiest man of 2022. Why is that? Comedian and television personality Bill Maher gives an explanation during the “new rules” segment of Real Time on March 25. (See link...
All I Really Want – A Jagged Cathartic Goodbye to 2021
What Alanis Morissette wrote in 1995 (Jagged Little Pill) resonates in my story – and perhaps in OUR story for 2021. With her help, let me exorcise a bit of frustration, have one last therapy session in 2021, and make pleas (in bold) before the...
Female Sexual Fluidity: Power of Context and the Future of Heterosexual Partnerships
“Power comes to women who bring gay expectations to their heterosexual couplings.” ~ Jennifer Baumgardner Mutually satisfying romance, love, and sexuality are teetering on the edge of failure in the modern heterosexual mating economy. ...
Mate Value of High-Income Men: Seeking Arrangements and the Erotic-Economic Bargain
"You can lose a lot of money chasing women, but you will never loose women by chasing money." ~ Chris Rock -- I Think I Love My Wife Evolution and Behavior published (September 2021) a recent study by Rosemary Hopcroft 1 that...
It Takes A Village – Alloparenting and Female Sexual Fluidity
Being born with the ability to go both ways may have been beneficial to ancestral women ~ Barry Kuhle Same-sex sexual behavior poses an evolutionary puzzle. Reproduction is the engine of evolution. Given the primacy of reproduction, why would...
Ultimate and Proximate Causes of Female Sexual Fluidity – the Wisdom of Evolutionary Psychology
Problems arise when proximate explanations, like sociocultural theories, are used in place of ultimate explanations, or evolutionary theories, to explain human characteristics. ~ Alex Mackiel In my last post (First Principle: Acknowledge...
First Principle: Acknowledge Male-Female Differences
As I prepare to address issues of sexual orientation and fluidity (see Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Presentation, and Biological Sex), it seems appropriate if not necessary to review “first principles” related to my mission and central...