by voglermc | Mar 31, 2016 | Media, Sexuality
NSFW: This article contains adult themes and frank discussion of human sexuality and health.* Jim came to me for therapy because he was having a hard time getting it up during sex. I asked him what he thought was causing the problem, and he said it was porn. He told...
by Andrew Smiler | Jan 29, 2015 | Media
Working with Historian Gwen Kay (SUNY Oswego) and Historian of Psychology Ben Harris (UNH), we looked at the way that masculinity was presented in Hearst Press’ Sunday newspaper insert immediately after WWI and just before WWII. Why Hearst? Estimates put readership of...
by Andrew Smiler | Jan 23, 2015 | Media
The Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI) was published by Jim Mahalik and his students (Boston College). In this study, I looked at some of the statistical properties of the scale.Why? When someone publishes a scale, they need to...
by Andrew Smiler | Jan 23, 2015 | Media
This is a chapter published in the Handbook of Gender in Psychology, which was edited by Joan Chrisler and Don McCreary. I got to know Joan when she was editor of the journal Sex Roles and was kind enough to allow me to put together a special issue on...
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...
