Sperm kills.* For hundreds of millions of women over the course of millenia, the riskiest action they ever took was having sex (consensual or otherwise, married or not) with men. As medical historian...
At his brit today, our week-old son received the name David. His full name is to be David Aneurin Nikola Schwyzer. His parents are over the moon, and his three-year old sister Heloise Cerys Raquel is...
I’m 45 today, fully and utterly middle-aged. It’s a splendid season of birthdays; our little son (whose brit and naming are tomorrow) was born last Wednesday, and my wife will turn 37 on ...
In the summer of 2008, I put up a three-part series on Christian sexual ethics. These posts have remained popular, and nearly four years on, I’ve revised them slightly. Part One: “Do Me, Do Me ...
This afternoon, my wife gave birth to a beautiful, healthy, 8 pound 12 ounce baby boy. We have a younger brother for Heloise; our family is expanding and we’re thrilled. No name yet, but weR...
At Role/Reboot today, I look at the latest in a string of incidents in USA high school sports where boys have refused to compete against girls. Excerpt: As women integrate themselves into what were o...
At Jezebel today, I look at men’s hunger to impress other men — and how that drives their sexual choices. Excerpt: Eating disorders — and the broader problem of poor body image — arenR...
This week’s column at Role/Reboot looks at the tragic suicide of NFL star Junior Seau, and the larger issue of rising suicide rates among the middle-aged. Excerpt: According to the American Fou...
My latest Genderal Interest column is up: The Cheating Dads of Brooklyn. I look at the recent revelation that the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope, infamous for perfectionistic parenting practices...
As someone who has never believed that private revelations tarnish public dignity, I’ve enjoyed reading the Vanity Fair excerpts from David Maraniss’ new biography of the young Barack Oba...
I’ve got a quick post up at Jezebel about a controversy brewing in my favorite sport: Major League Soccer Blowhard Says Female Superfans Are Totally Not Hot. Excerpt: On Monday, Simon Borg, a w...
A Happy May Day to all. My column this week at Role/Reboot: Ten Things Every Man Should Know or Do by 30. Excerpt: 6. Don’t take women’s mistrust personally. By this age, you should stop saying inane...
One of the biggest mistakes men make is assuming that their unhappiness is proof that there’s no such thing as male privilege.* I am intensely interested in the ways in which men position thems...
I got a note yesterday that, with the author’s permission, I’m posting in order to answer her questions: I follow you on Twitter and have bookmarked your blog; additionally, I have read m...
A few weeks ago, I wrote a short piece for Relevant, a Christian magazine, on Beauty and Sexuality. The same day it went up, the editor of Fuller Theological Seminary’s student magazine asked m...
The Genderal Interest column this week: Do Women Envy Sociopathic Men? Excerpt: There may be women who fall for dangerous predators because of the evolutionary impulses that Ramsland cites; others ma...
Do the sacrifices of our parents, our ancestors, and our culture constitute obligations? I get that question in one form or another every semester in my women’s history class; my answer is alwa...
My latest at Role/Reboot addresses that evergreen issue about marriage and last names. In our case, it was my wife who insisted on taking my surname after we were wed — presenting me with at le...
An earlier version of this post appeared in November 2009. In my reprint of a post about young conservative students, I made a crack about Ayn Rand. Since Rand has been the subject of a pair of recen...
At Role/Reboot this week, my reflection on a certain new Burger King ad featuring the most famous metrosexual of them all, David Beckham. Excerpt: Just a few short years ago, Burger King, their sales...
The Genderal Interest column this week at Jez looks at the real reason guys hate to be called “creepy” — and why the word is often useful. Excerpt: At the heart of the “anti-c...
From May 2009 We recently debated the “problem” of men “never feeling hot.” (Note: The subject of my piece in Best Sex Writing 2012 as well.) Commenters of all sexes shared pa...
This week’s column at Role/Reboot looks at Ann Romney’s recent ad about her husband, the presumptive GOP nominee, and her remark that at times he was more like another son than a husband....
Another appearance on HLNTV, this time to talk about Mel Gibson, domestic violence, and anti-Semitism. Couldn’t make it to the CNN studio on Sunset, so I did the segment as a “beeper̶...
My Genderal Interest column at Jezebel this week: Is the Teen Birth Rate Dropping Because Boys are More Romantic? Excerpt: …in terms of their emotional dexterity, boys today are “more lik...
It’s been years since I’ve written for a Christian audience, so I’m excited to have a post today at the progressive evangelical Relevant Magazine. Beauty and Sexuality revisits issu...
My weekly column at Role/Reboot riffs one last time on the John Derbyshire debacle: Can a Man Change His Sexual Attraction to Teens? Excerpt: Three factors drive men’s fascination with teenage girls....
This post first appeared in 2005. Derbyshire was fired today from his gig at National Review, following an astonishingly blatant racist screed at another site. But Derbyshire has a long and problemat...
My Genderal Interest column this week looks at the influence on boys of the legendary Young Adult writer Judy Blume. Blume achieved fame as one of the most frequently banned and most consistently cel...
I did a short CNN/HLN segment yesterday, talking with others about the “Girls Around Me” mobile app. Here it is:
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