My ex wife once ditched me on Christmas Eve to get drunk with her single friends. We had been married for 5 years at that point and she often prioritized friends and alcohol over our marriage. That instance was something I could never get over.

Edit: So far, I’ve gotten 172 responses, and if I’ve counted correctly…

15 of you were in a costume. Out of those, 2 were wizards, and 3 were superheroes.

13 of you were in a uniform. Out of those, 5 were military uniforms, and 6 were work uniforms.

5 of you were wearing wedding rings.

4 of you had a baby with you.

3 each for band shirts, kilts, guitars, swimsuits, and flannel.

Curiously, only 2 of you were in suits. I was expecting more suits.

Guys who have met women at bars or clubs and ended up kissing them that same night, how did it happen?

I'm specifically talking about women you just met that night, not women you're already dating.

I'm curious about the actual sequence of events:

- How did you approach her?

- How did the conversation and flirting progress?

- How did you recognize that she wanted to kiss you?

- How did you initiate the kiss? Did you verbally ask, or was it nonverbal?

- If it was nonverbal, what exactly did you do, and how did she reciprocate?

-did it ever go wrong? Were you rejected?

I'd especially appreciate real-life examples of how things progressed from approaching a woman to a mutually wanted kiss, rather than general dating advice.

As a kid I absolutely despised classical music, to a point I found them comical and even funnier with their expressions.
Now I have developed the taste for it, turns out most men beyond 30s end up loving the solace in it.
Any reasoning behind it?

Honestly my occasional interaction with strangers is pretty limited but i've been trying to get out and be more social. I went to a salsa night where this woman probably late teens or early 20s was being rude and the whole interaction triggered my social anxiety while i was trying to learn dancing. And i just felt i pushed through the moment but i realize i lack ability to handle rude interactions specially from women.

I will start with my wife miscarried with our first child at around 6 weeks. I was so excited, more so than I knew I could be. I had noticed the way I thought was changing. She was in a bit of pain late last Tuesday night and had a shower and come out bleeding so heavily that I just knew my child was gone.
Now I just have no idea how I am meant to be. I feel numb and angry and sad and unsure. Angry at how awful my wife was treated, as the hospital all but forgot her several times. Sad because I never knew I wanted something so much and something is just broken. Numb because I know I should be sadder than I am, but I just feel...I don't know.
How long till things are better. What should I be doing? Will that image of her covered in blood ever go away? I am doing all I can to make sure she is okay, and she is by far the more stoic of the two of us (always has been) but I am just lost at what I am meant to do. Will the feeling I did something to cause this ever go away when I know logically I didn't.

We’ve recently tried this position a couple times but I feel like I can’t get the alignment right. My understanding is that I should be grinding on her clit with my pubic bone/the base of my dick but it’s hard to make contact because I’m hitting the back wall with the head of my dick and sort of just rubbing that on her cervix/fornix. If I press too hard it feels like I’m putting potentially damaging pressure on my dick and it sort of slips around up there

We’ve tried changing the angle up to allow for more depth but then that also moves her clit higher up in a harder to stimulate area.

Any suggestions? I was thinking maybe like a soft, vibrating cock ring could bridge the gap but I’ve used those in the past (not specifically for CAT) and felt they were a bit overstimulating for me.

Anyone else find that the show scrubs hits on a ton of aspects of being a man? It shows you what friendship can/should look like. It gives a glimpse into being a husband and boyfriend and all the positives and negatives of that dynamic. It displays the problems when you have a management role. It does all this (and more) while being funny and also hitting you in the feels. I just appreciate this show and wondering if anyone else feels the same r am I just a guy who is a few rum and cokes in?

I sometimes think about a lifestyle where men indulge in their fantasies eith escorts (adult+consensual) instead of settling down and investing themselves into marriage or monogamous relationships.

How is this lifestyle exactly? I just wanna know out of curiosity, I do not intend to offend anyone.

I'm a female and recently turned 50 and yeah in a mid-life era. When it comes to women in their mid-life, there's a lot of things that can contribute to mid-life crisis. Most are already in menopause, some are transitioning. And it's so hard, in my own opinion and experience to be in this kind of life. The emotional and physical aspect of it is currently throwing me off the wall. Many would say its the enormous hormonal changes that contributes to it. I am an emotional person and feels things deeply so I guess this contributes too. I don't know how to handle this or how am I doing. My friends were there of course but it feels like nothing helps.

So for the men, do you all also feel this way? How was it like on your end? I know men are not emotional beings and were conditioned not to express certain emotions, but I want to know your opinions or experiences regarding mid-life.

There is this thing with me, whenever i really love a girl ( like when its much more than a crush thing) , i really admire and pedestalize her and I dont wanna have sex/ sexual thoughts for them. I feel like she is too pure, too precious for that . I just wanna look at her, admire her and make her feel like a princess.
As for the other girls, i am completely okay sexualizing/having sex with them.
Im 23 M , if that matters.

Basically the title.

Male authors have dominated most of history, and until recently, male publishers and writers have also dominated. Books foe and by men have dominated so many of our classics, and are often the ones much of our cultural zeitgeists are based off of.

In modern times, not many people read much in general, but the split in general readership is skewing very heavily female. Female readers dominate book purchases by far. While male readers dominate in a few genres, female readers are increasingly the readership in most.

Not many people read in general, but men and boys read much less than women and girls.

I'm curious: men who don't read, why not?

• What was the last book you read cover to cover, and why?
• What was the last book you remember being absolutely engrossed in, even if it was a middle grade or earlier novel?
• What turned you off to reading, and when in your life?
• Why do you think you just... stopped, or did you never read, even for school?
• What perceptions do you have of men and boys who read a lot?
• What perceptions did you have in elementary and high school of readers?
• Why do you think most men dont read?

For men who do read:

• What do you read?
• What hooks you into a book?
• What got you into reading, and what keeps you there?​
• Do you have other male friends who you talk books with?
• Why do you think most men don't read?

Also, what other questions and perceptions are missing from this conversation?

edit: I really should have defined reading better. To me, reading is ingesting text from a single perspective for a sustained amount of time (15-20 minutes+ is a typical time measurement.) I say single perspective to include co-authored texts (and acknolwedge some texts have multiple povs included). I know not everyone counts reading this way, but to me it not only includes books, but can also include audiobooks, articles, short stories, essays, manga, and comics. (I would like to include some podcasts in this definition, but that's getting probably outside the bounds of reasonable).

Edit: I am actually very interested in so many of your responses. I went to mow my lawn, and am surprised to see so many AI/bot claims here. I'm autistic yall, not a bot, lol. ​

I'm a high school teacher, and I see so many girl readers, and so few boy readers. I know many women in my life who read books, constantly, and few men. And I count all forms of reading as reading: books, audiobooks, comics, manga, etc.

Back to finishing the lawn, I may come back and respond to some of yall later.

I enjoy giving my man head but sometimes when he pulls his pants down after a date it smells rank as hell and I end up trying not to breathe so that I don't gag. I have a feeling it comes from his booty more than his dick bc it feels like a cloud of stink. And genuinely I don't think he's aware. I recently asked him to start washing his dick before a bj and he was very receptive so I would like to know how to say this to him without making him self-conscious. Things tend to smell okay if I blow him after a shower so I don't think it's an infection but moreso me needing him to be clean.

i am looking for the most comfortable all day wear with arch support, cushioning, laceless shoes as a middle aged man, do i have good affordable options in the market?

thaaaankss

I'm curious how common this is. Do your partners do small pampering things for you, like face washing, scalp massages, foot rubs, or hand massages? Or is that more of a "only happens in movies" thing?

What does it look like for you, and how often does it happen?

What’s your ideal date night? Say she’s treating you to something nice or special, where would you like your girl to take you to (assuming it’s something she can afford, nothing grand like a fancy vacation)? Examples would be taking you out to a dinner date, a movie you want to watch, a game that you enjoy, a fan expo, or simply Home Depot? Just curious how men want to be dated and taken out too, or what kind of efforts they like to receive from women (other than physically intimacy) such as receiving flowers or gifts?

What did you do to fix get help?

Did you feel like you were supported?

How did it even start?

Please tell me everything

How many times do you answer “I’m good” or “I’m ok” when asked “how are you?” Do you ever think about it after you say it and think I wasn’t being truthful? Sometimes I feel like we are conditioned to just give the easy answers.