“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”

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These are comments by David May and Rick on the post “For The Love Of God, Please Stop Saying ‘Bromance’”.

Angel

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Lowering his beauty standards proves too high a challenge for Andy Bodle.

Her Feet of Clay

beauty worship, objectification, psychology of beauty, dating, sex

“We all judge people on their looks. Some of us are just more honest about it.” When Andy Bodle puts a woman on a pedestal for her beauty, the results are predictable.

Making Love All Day Long

Durex, Get Closer Go Further, intimacy, married sex, zach rosenberg, good men project

Zach Rosenberg may be a married father of a preschooler, but he and his wife don’t let their sex life suffer. What’s his trick?

She Always Meets Me Halfway

romantic moments, romantic love, marriage, true love, father's lesson to son on love, 100 words from men on love, Scott Behson, The Good Life

How Scott Behson knew she was the one.

If You Ever Did Write Anything About Me, I’d Want it to be About Love

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When a former love puts Conner Habib in the hospital, he is left reeling with questions of abuse, betrayal, and a shattered heart.

Geometry of Love

#100words, men on love, love poetry, mathematical love poetry, geometrical love poetry, romance

Carl Bosch’s love poem celebrates marriage as “two parallel lines; same trajectory, same destination.”

“Bemoaning the ‘friend zone’ means you had a romantic interest in someone who doesn’t feel the same, and that hurts.”

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These are comments by Bay Area Guy, dlz, and Jack on the post “The Friend Zone (or, How “Jerks” Are Made)”.

Fuzzy Bunny’s Guide To You-Know-What

sex education, puberty, male adolescence, learning about the birds and the bees, sexual reproduction

Steve Coruzzi’s sex education was woefully incomplete.

5 Hopelessly Romantic Facts About the Late Roger Ebert and His Wife Chaz

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Roger and Chaz had a relationship for the ages.

First Crush

suicide, first love, heartbreak

When Andy Bodle’s first feelings of love were not returned in kind, he succumbed to desperation.

“I used to be convinced that ‘real men’ should only want sex and hate cuddling, kissing, and talking about love.”

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Men, there are a lot of things that society tells you that you should want. Do you want those things? Or do you want something more, something different?

“In 2007 we met and fell in love. We instinctively slept completely wrapped around and enveloped in one another.”

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Do you sleep in the same bed as your significant other? Do you find yourselves happier and able to sleep better in different beds, or do you prefer to be wrapped around your loved one?

What Men Really Want

psychotherapy, men in therapy, men's sexuality, relationships, horny men, men want sex

Men may think what they want is shockingly antisocial, but digging deeper reveals that what men truly want is actually quite ordinary and healthy.

Men Spend Less on Porn Than Women Do

women's porn use, porn for women, what women wank to, gay male porn, slashfic, romance novels, bodice busters, romance, desire, sexuality

Although the straight female audience is eight times larger, the gay male porn market is enormous in comparison. What porn are women using?

100 Words from Men on Love: 4/6

nature, love, love writing, masculine love, masculine desire, male desire, male love, flash nonfiction, call for submissions, male writers, men who write

Love is in the air. A call for submissions.