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What I Learned About Male Sexuality Today
Learning is cool. As Rylee and I work on our boys and sexual development project, we get to do lots of reading. Even better, lots of the reading is about sex. As you may recall, last week Rylee and...
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Hooking Up: Two Play That Game, and Not Just on Campus
johnsommersflanagan:Hey. Here’s a piece Rylee S-F wrote that articulates some of the work and thinking we’ve been doing together as a father-daughter team. The focus is on male sexuality. Give a big...
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Raising Boys in the 21st Century
As some of you may already know, yesterday I had a blog piece posted on the American Counseling Association website. The piece was titled, “Boys will be Boys . . . Unless we teach them something...
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Why Evolution is a Bad Explanation for Human Behavior
Nearly every day I hear, read, or see the latest news story about how the human brain is hard-wired to make all humans act in one particular way or another. These stories annoy me because: They...
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What Kind of a Man Attends the 4th National Psychotherapy with Men Conference?
Several years ago a former student caught up with me in the hall outside my office in the College of Education at the University of Montana. He had taken an Intro to Psychology course from me way back...
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Dealing with Your Grief before it Deals with You
When it comes to caring for our own mental health, most Americans are asleep at the wheel. There are road signs, signals, and exits everywhere, but most Americans are committed to keeping their eyes...
View ArticleNew Article on Firearms, Young Males, and Mass Shootings
Here’s a link to an article published today on the Good Men Project site. In the article, I make the case for (a) restricting semi-automatic weapon sales to males over 25, (b) focusing on healthier...
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Robb Elementary School, Highland Park, and Other Mass Shootings: Let’s Talk...
Nearly every mass shooting in the U.S. includes three main factors, the first two of which no one seems to want to talk about. The shooter is male.The shooter is under 25-years-oldThe weapon is a...
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Men, Suicide, and Happiness: Helping Men Live Meaningful Lives
Tomorrow morning, March 31, 2023, at 8am, I’m co-presenting with Matt Englar-Carlson and Dan Salois on suicide and happiness with men at the American Counseling Association World Conference in...
View ArticleStrengths-Based Suicide, with a Little Stuff on Men, for the North Dakota...
I just finished a nice session on the strengths-based approach to suicide with the NDCA. They asked for a little extra info/emphasis on working with men, because men are particularly vulnerable to...
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