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What Child Sexual Abuse Means to Women & Girl Perpetrators    by Jane Gilgun
Price: $1.29 USD. 2740 words. Published on March 7, 2010. .

Women and girls sexually abuse children far more often than many people realize. This article describes what child sexual abuse means to women and girl perpetrators. Sexual abuse by women and girls can be confusing for girls and boys. They often feel stigmatized because of wide spread-assumptions that only men sexually abuse children.
Why They Do It: Beliefs & Emotional Gratification Lead to Violence    by Jane Gilgun
Price: Free! 3600 words. Published on May 1, 2010. .

Beliefs and emotional gratification are core issues in violent acts. Other explanations such as mental illness and being victims themselves take second place to belief systems. Through case studies, the author shows how beliefs and gratification are central to understanding and preventing violence
Spots Of A Leopard - a journalist grows up    by Aernout Zevenbergen
Price: $9.99 USD. 99400 words. Published on December 11, 2010. .

"Spots Of A Leopard - a journalist grows up" is a quest to discover the meaning of modern-day manhood. When internationally acclaimed journalist Aernout Zevenbergen moved to Kenya in 1997, he had no idea how deeply his encounters with joy and sorrow in Africa would effect him. Writing about the most inspiring as well as the most disconcerting facets of life, Zevenbergen learns how to grow up.
Masculinity in Tolkien    by Melanie Rost
Price: $2.99 USD. 36240 words. Published on March 21, 2011. .

In Masculinity in Tolkien, Rost argues that despite Tolkien's often conservative views when it comes to sex and gender, a closer look at how masculinity is performed in his works actually shows the social criticism hidden within, the rejection of the heroic code and the search for a hero and a masculinity which is built on love and loyalty, not the excess of courage and pride of heroic poetry.
I Am Bathroom Tile    by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
Price: $0.99 USD. 1950 words. Published on June 24, 2011. .

A single man reflects on women in general as he and his friends celebrate another's coming wedding, which will leave our hero the last single man in his circle of friends.
Pas de Deux    by Jack Urquhart
Price: $0.99 USD. 7360 words. Published on November 4, 2011. .

Southern-Baptist-to-the-bone Inez Fordham confronts the troubling notion of non-traditional masculinity—and, peripherally, gay relationships. A meeting of mind and spirit forces Inez to see that beauty and difference do indeed dance together.
The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman    by David Waller
Price: $4.99 USD. 72750 words. Published by victoriansecrets on November 22, 2011. .

Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) was the Victorian Arnold Schwarzenegger - a strongman who was colossally famous in his day and possessed what was considered to be the most perfect male body. He rose from obscurity in Prussia to become a music-hall sensation in late Victorian London, going on to great success as a performer in North America and throughout the British Empire.
The Trap    by M.E. Traylor
Price: Free! 2330 words. Published on December 9, 2011. .

The Trap is a bleak and uplifting personal allegory of relationship with masculinity, authority, and self.
White Mythology    by W.D. Clarke
Price: $4.99 USD. 87170 words. Published on September 4, 2012. .

White Mythology is comprised of two novellas, both of which are concerned with the psycho-pathology of masculinity. In "Skinner Boxed" psychiatrist Edward Blanchette's personal life implodes just as his clinical trial for the experimental antidepressant drug "Alba" goes awry. The second piece, "Love's Alchemy" traces a series of interpersonal betrayals to their "birth" in a youthful game of "war".