Time to Detox Masculinity: Break the Box, Cut the Schlock, Be a Beauty

Nicholas Fair Nowak
GoodMenders
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11 min readDec 6, 2021

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Originally published September 2020 in American Camping Magazine. Edited for a broader audience.

Peggy Orenstein’s recent Atlantic article on “The Miseducation of the American Boy” — which pulls from her 2020 book Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity — is a good reminder that the topic of…

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Nicholas Fair Nowak
GoodMenders

Dad, husband, educator, camp guy, founder of GoodMenders.com — building better culture, masculinity, and leadership. Medium profits support educational equity.