Male Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Trigger warning for brief mentions of rape and abuse. I recently came across (possibly via Scarleteen) this awesome report about male adolescent sexual health within the primary care setting. According...
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Hitting Puberty at 42: Testosterone and Me
When Charlie Glickman started using testosterone treatments, he found himself feeling like a teenager again—for good and for ill. This article originally appeared at CharlieGlickman.com. I recently...
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Adolescent Regrets: Call for Submission Due 7/13
What do you regret from your teen years? If you could go back, what would you do differently? The Good Men Project will be running posts on the subject of adolescent regrets. Do you have a memory that...
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Special is a Bitter Taste
Being a teenager sucks, but when I treated relationships like they were disposable, I didn’t know I was hurting other people too. — I was boy in high school. No, I mean I was a young girl, but I...
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Iris
Teen romance is always tricky, even more so when it’s between two young men in a conservative Christian environment. D. Gilson pulls no punches in this bold poem. Iris Sixteen, we Kissed Dating...
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Will You Ever Grow-Up?: 7 Marks of Maturity
Leadership expert, Dr. Tim Elmore, discusses the challenges of growing up in a culture that overwhelms and delays the process of becoming a mature man. — You may have noticed a paradox that exists...
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Boys Gym
Small towns can hide secrets, as they do in Scott Hightower’s poem. — Boys Gym The first minutes of gym we have to hurry to our coach who stands on the glossy blond gym floor. His left hand and hairy...
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Punchline
Christopher Stephen Soden explores the uncertainty of queer youth—and perhaps youth in general—in this vivid poem. — Punchline I cannot tell you why I picked Barbra Streisand in Central Park, the...
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Puberty
A day in the forest and a shared moment of wonderment bring a father and his teenaged son together. — Puberty Among the last of the raspberries we find scat seeded about, canes pushed over without...
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The Principal
R.G. Evans illustrates how adults can be bullied as well; and how they can come out of it triumphant. — The Principal for J.M. Walrus, some kids would say and snicker behind his back. Hey, Mr....
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When You’re Thirteen
Jarrett Neal considers that familiar rite of passage from childhood to adolescence–the boys’ locker room. — When You’re Thirteen No one tells you that from now on locker rooms Will embody both heaven...
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How to Teach Children About Desire
Stephen Scott Whitaker raises the uncomfortable yet important subject of one’s children’s burgeoning sexuality. — How to Teach Children About Desire How to teach children about desire when with all my...
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Abandoning the Tough Guy
Impressionable young men may regard action films not as fiction, but as documentaries and training videos. And it can hold them back. — I grew up on typical guy films: action, horror and organized...
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4 Things Every Teenager Wants Their Parent to Understand
Mike Berry is a dad who understands teenagers. Here’s what your kids want you to know. ___ “I don’t get my kid anymore. They’re not that little girl or boy I used to know. Now that they’re a teenager,...
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Stop Criminalizing Teens for Sexting
Teens are native tech users — they use their phones like they use their hands. — In Colorado recently, a “ring” of hundreds of teens in high school and middle school were discovered to be sharing...
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The Mountain Chickadee
The Mountain Chickadee Almost never alone, they enter the tree, adept at shadows. Almost always in numbers, quick, moving from bark to limb to cone to needle, the thin splay of the branches wavering...
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Is Your Teenagers’ Substance Use Killing You?
They walk into my office. They are quiet, but not because they are nervous about the therapy. They tell a familiar story: abuse, anxious days and sleep-deprived nights, drug deals, street crimes,...
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‘All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me—consciously or...
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me—consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected. -President Donald Trump We assumed the world existed to give us everything we wanted handsome...
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Father, Dad, or Daddy?
Portraits of the Patriarchy Father Time examines the progressive shift in modern fatherhood Part 7 Back in the college days, one of my best friends and I were getting drunk at some kitschy bar in...
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Dr. Drew Pinsky on Adolescent Mental Health & Gun Violence in America
Dr. Drew Pinsky’s long-running call-in show Loveline, with Adam Carolla, aired on MTV for 32 years and pioneered a pop culture adaptation of relationship and safe sex education. The show, featuring an...
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