Today on Men Are Talking, we talk with author and Clinical Sexologist Dr. Steven Davidson about his insights into sexual health and happiness from more than thirty years as a sex therapist for individuals and couples. Since Dr. Davidson and I both have backgrounds in Social Work we also talk about sexism and the lack of gender diversity in that profession and increasingly in the social sciences as well, imbalances that can result in men being poorly understood and underserved as a class.
Sep 9, 2021
1 hr 5 min
Edward Bartlett, holder of a Ph.D. in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, is the founder and a board member of the Coalition to End Domestic Violence. He is a scientist who sees and understands Domestic Violence as a public health issue. He also sees how ideology has been trumping science to the tune of 500 million dollars a year to fund programs that are proven to do little or nothing to reduce domestic violence but do a lot to provide salaries to a legion of professional feminists.
Sep 2, 2021
41 min
Eric McLoyd and Scott Steward created the Men, Sex, Gen X podcast to better represent Generation X in the media. In September 2020 they did an episode on why mothers get more respect than fathers. When they expressed an interest in being on "Men Are Talking," Jack suggested following up on that episode and maybe going a little deeper into what's going between mothers and fathers, women and men. It was going pretty well. And then somebody brought up race.
Aug 26, 2021
1 hr 20 min
Father's Eve is a new holiday held every year at venues around the country on the evening before Father’s Day. It’s a fun, no-pressure way for fathers to hang out with other fathers – to connect, share and celebrate fatherhood. And have a beer if they like. The man behind it is our guest John Francis, who is exactly the kind of man just about everybody would love to have a beer with. And you can, at least virtually, next Father’s Eve. Maybe being the host of a Father’s Eve is in your future?
Aug 19, 2021
40 min
Rick Belden had to work hard to become a man of integrity. His upbringing made it difficult for him to make sense of his feelings and establish boundaries around who he was when others wanted him to be someone else. In this episode of "Men Are Talking," Rick talks about his years-long process of getting "unstuck," of learning the importance of understanding "What happened to me?" as opposed to "What's wrong with me?", especially when we're immobilized and demoralized by shame and self-doubt.
Aug 12, 2021
1 hr 15 min
John Lauritsen thinks freely, studies deeply and, as an independent scholar not beholden to academic or philanthropic dictates, is free to speak his mind. One of his main interests is love between men, which he defines as including love, sex, and friendship. On this episode of Men Are Talking we talk about the reasons gay men and heterosexual men so often see each other as different because of our sexualities and so rarely see each other as the same because of our sex.
Aug 5, 2021
1 hr 22 min
Patriarchy is "a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line." But "The Patriarchy" is the ultimate feminist bogeyman -- a global, conspiratorial cabal intent on oppressing women and serving only the selfish interests of men. Today we talk with Steven Van Valkenburg, whose Patriarchy Central Twitter account satirizes with dry and deadly dead-pan humor the impossibility of such set-up.
Jul 29, 2021
54 min
Fred Hayward is one of the pioneers of the modern men's movement. In this episode of “Men Are Talking,” Fred explains how he got kicked off Oprah Winfrey's show when Oprah was a local star in Baltimore. Then host Jack Kammer tells his story of taking Oprah out on a sort-of-date to a men's issues presentation. At the end, Fred and Jack express their wishes for some simple men's issues-related things Oprah could say to make a world of difference on problems she cares deeply and sincerely about.
Jul 22, 2021
38 min
Mark Perry is an economics professor at the University of Michigan and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a one-man wrecking crew against "gender-conscious" (AKA pro-female, seldom-if-ever-pro-male) scholarships, programs, services, and facilities provided to a supposedly disadvantaged sex (AKA women, even though they outnumber men) in colleges and universities in violation of Title IX's rules against sexism in higher education. Maybe you'd like to help him? He tells you how.
Jul 7, 2021
1 hr 9 min
Jim Ellis an author, playwright, and documentary filmmaker. In this episode of “Men Are Talking,” we hear about Jim’s boyhood friendship, how it filled his life with joy, freedom, and confidence, and how he felt a deep and discomfiting loss when his friend moved away. Now, as an adult, Jim derives those same essential ingredients for being a happy man from an international organization of men’s teams — not sports teams — called Mentor, Discover, Inspire.
Jul 7, 2021
38 min
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