Tag: men

  • I want to be a Toys ‘R Us kid

    I want to be a Toys ‘R Us kid

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    Last year in the Raddison Blu in Bristol I was in a conversation with several rather well known sex bloggers and I wondered out loud about why sex toy marketing of vibrators didn’t include marketing to men, to buy them for their partners. Yes I know I am being very hetero-normative here but cut me…

  • I’m just a boy who can’t say no

    I’m just a boy who can’t say no

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    I don’t care how many people you have slept with, this isn’t a contest. There is no prize for most or least. It isn’t relevant to your value. I have slept with more women than I can count. Mostly for a warm bed in the cold of winter when I was homeless. That isn’t something…

  • All Things, Re-considered

    All Things, Re-considered

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    I have said before how easy it is to fall into the trap of thinking that other people are like us. If we have some shared interests then surely we must think the same about other things as well. I find myself in that position far too often where I assume that someone who are…

  • A Few Good Men

    A Few Good Men

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    Something has gone wrong with men. Maybe something has always been wrong with men, it’s hard to say since I am one. It is evident in the Trump campaign where he treats women horribly and the way he acts toward his daughter Ivanka. You can see it in the way the idiotic Gamergate  people treat…

  • Not the Right Kind of Fear

    Not the Right Kind of Fear

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    I was asked today “What is it like to have women be afraid of you? I know that I am sort of asking what is is like to be a man” Now the context of this question is not mine to tell, but suffice it to say that it was a well deserved question based…

  • New Rules

    New Rules

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    As regular readers and twitter followers might know. I am male. Most days I am  pretty happy about that. But not every day. There are days when I find it hard to know what a man is supposed to be. I know I am a product of my times and I also know that in…