by Andrew Smiler | Jan 23, 2015 | Media
To some people, they seem like obvious questions: Why do boys date? Why do boys have sex? And like any human behavior, there’s no single answer.Who? A group of 106 boys in 10th grade were asked those questions, and they were given a list of about...
by Andrew Smiler | Jan 23, 2015 | Media
What? In this paper, I discussed the different approaches to measuring masculinity that had been used since the ‘feminist revolution’ of the 1960-70s.Why? The way that we measure something tells us how people think about that thing. And because we’re...
by Andrew Smiler | Jan 23, 2015 | Media
It’s one of those everlasting questions: What qualities do (hetero) men want in a woman? In order to put this question in context, we compared men’s desired characteristics in a (female) romantic partner with their desired characteristics in a (female)...
by Andrew Smiler | Jan 23, 2015 | Media
by Andrew Smiler | Dec 17, 2014 | Media
During adolescence, most youth experience their first kiss, first relationship, and first sex (intercourse). Instead of talking about adolescent sexuality as inherently risky, I tend to think about it as typical or “normative.” After all, if most...