A comic must earn his living as a clown while suffering the ultimate heartbreak. Presented by The Moth.

Financial stress and fights over money can eat away at a marriage. But do they cause divorce? That’s a more complicated matter. A Harvard University study suggests that neither financial strains nor women's increased ability to get out of an unhappy marriage, starting in the 1970s, is typically the main reason for a split. The big factor, Harvard sociology professor Alexandra Killewald found, is the husband's employment status. For the past four decades, she discovered, husbands who aren’t employed full time have a 3.3 percent chance of getting divorced in any given year...

Couples who divide housework fairly have more sex, but couples where the man does the bulk of the housework have significantly less sex than others.

In her teens, strangers flashed her on the subway, teachers asked her for hugs and boys made jokes about her breasts. Should she laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry? By Jessica Valenti.

The violence at the heart of masculinity, by Michael Salter

Turns out, they might be more than just handsome sink decoration.

A few years ago, Esquire put together a list that keeps rising from the dead like a zombie to haunt the Internet. It embodies the whole mission of that magazine so far as I can tell. The magazine’s monthly instructions are not aimed at me, so I know the magazine mostly by the taglines and tarted-up ladies on on its cover. But I did just read Esquire’s list… By Rebecca Solnit. (Nov. 18)

The controversial director explains Love, his film of sex, heartbreak, and 3D cum shots.

The gnostic paradox of young, tech-savvy traditionalists, who see through everything except their own conspiracy theories

Aggression and masculinity seem so inextricably entwined. I set out to find out why.

“A young male’s hormonal constitution and the way his brain matures together increase his susceptibility to fanaticism, an extreme instance of bonding, and make him prone to taking risk-laden actions on behalf of his group.” By Joe Herbert.

Don’t date a man who reads. He is fine spending time on his own.

Behind the mask of Rudyard Kipling’s confidence. By Austin Allen.

“Possessing a gun is considered by many men as a straightforward way of subscribing to dominant masculinity.”

A 25-year-old Hungarian man will spend the next 11 years in prison after being convicted of running a horrifying gay sex slave operation out of New York and Miami. Andrew Vass was sentenced this week to more than a decade behind bars for his part in an elaborate scheme in which he and two others lured young men from Hungary to the United States under false pretenses then forced them have sex on webcams and prostitute themselves to strangers for up to 20 hours a day for months on end.

Murder-suicide (M-S) is a complex phenomenon that can involve a multifaceted set of interrelated biological and social factors. M-S is also sexed and gendered in that the perpetrators are most often male and their underpinning motives and actions link to masculinities in an array of diverse ways. With the overarching goal to describe connections between men, masculinities, and M-S, 296 newspaper articles describing 45 North American M-S cases were analyzed.

The age of austerity has transformed work, but what it means to be a man has not caught up

Why do so many young men use the word "fag?"

At IFLS, we like to hit you with hard science. So cross your legs and enjoy some bonerrific facts about dongs. You Don’t Need To Be Born To Get A Boner Yup, that adorable silhouette on the ultrasound screen could be sporting an erection. Genitals begin to develop around the 6th week of gestation, and it can be as soon as 10 weeks after that that the male fetus gets an erection.

Vanderbilt's Women's Center tells men how to be men at 'Healthy Masculinities Week.'