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Volume 6, Issue 2, 2017 Volume 6, Issue 2, 2017 Table of Contents i-v PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION Gary M Misan ARTICLES IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Acknowledging Sexual Harassment and 1–56 Identity Harassment Paul Nathanson IF NOT FOR BOTH, WHAT IS JUSTICE? 57–63 Katherine Young MISSION COMPLETION, TROOP WELFARE AND DESTRUCTIVE IDEALISM: a case 64–89 study on the phenomenology of a combat veteran's social reintegration Gary Senecal , MaryCatherine McDonald HIDDEN PERSPECTIVES IN THE DISCOURSE OF DIVORCE 90–108 Gerhard Amendt MALE CIRCUMCISION GRIEF: Effective and ineffective therapeutic approaches 109–125 Lindsay Watson ,Tom Golden ONLY MALE GENITAL MODIFICATION IS A FORM OF CONTROL; THE FEMALE 126–166 COUNTERPART ORIGINATED AS A FEMALE-INITIATED COMPETITIVE PLOY Steve Moxon MEMOIR THE NEWSPAPER BOY 167–210 Daniel O'Ciardha BRIEF CONTRIBUTIONS GYNECOMASTIA: FEMALE BREASTS IN YOUNG MALES 211–219 Howard W. Siegel BIOLOGY AND RITUAL OUTRAGE: The Future of Gender Relations 220–224 Gerhard Amendt PHOTO FEATURE DISTORTED BOYS: A Photographic Essay 225–231 Jan H. Andersen New Male Studies – Copyright 2017 – ISBN 1839-7816 www.newmalestudies.com Website design and web hosting by the Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies P/L www.aimhs.com.au i NEW MALE STUDIES – AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2 – 2017 PREFACE Welcome to New Male Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2, the second issue for 2017. This issue sees the Journal continue live up to its name as an International Journal by offering challenging and thought-provoking submissions this time from the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Denmark and Germany. While looking forward to the new issue we are also saddened to see the departure of the Journal founder and inaugural Editor-In-Chief, Professor Miles Groth. The editorial staff, academe, our readers and male studies owe a debt of gratitude for Professor Groth’s courage in mounting a Journal that offers a forum, to explore the male-experience unencumbered by the restraints of political correctness and the glib gender- political doctrine of the post-modern era. While Professor Groth is stepping aside from an active editorial role with the Journal, he will remain connected in the capacity of Emeritus Editor-in- Chief. With regard to the Journal’s future, we are delighted to announce that Professor Groth will be succeeded by Professor Dennis Gouws PhD. Dr Gouws is a Professor of English at Springfield College in Massachusetts, U.S.A. and a Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A. He has resident status in Australia, and lives in Canberra for several months of the year, working with Australian colleagues in the fields of male health and male studies. He serves on the editorial board of The International Journal of Family Research and Policy and on the advisory board of The Foundation for Male Studies. His recent publications include “Manhood and Mettle in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and NEW MALE STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ~ ISSN 1839-7816 ~ Vol 6, Issue 2, 2017, Page i - v © 2017 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MALE HEALTH AND STUDIES. ii The Mill on the Floss: Male Characters Negotiating Victorian Material Culture.” The Confidential Clerk. (Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University, India) and “Orientalism and David Hockney’s Male-Positive Imaginative Geographies.” Oriental Interiors: Identities, Performance, Space. (John Potvin, Ed.) INTRODUCTION Professor Groth’s last Issue as Chief Editor explores topics including sexual harassment, post traumatic stress in returned servicemen, divorce, male circumcision, male gynaecomastia, relationships, and male child abuse. As always, the authors present their positions with well- reasoned argument underpinned by considered thought, sound evidence and in selected cases, lived experience. Issue 6.2 opens with a thoughtful essay by Paul Nathanson, who as co-author with Katherine Young, has penned several books that explore misandry in the modern era. Paul posits that while sexual-harassment scandals are good news for women they are bad news for men because they unfairly tar all men with the same brush and place them on trial, collectively, in the court of public opinion. In these days of social media and the ritual outrage that often accompanies it, neither the presumption of innocence let alone the presentation of evidence is afforded. He proposes a new way of thinking about harassment, which while holding (individual) men accountable for the sexual harassment of women men, also makes women accountable for the identity harassment of men. In a first for the Journal, we publish a rebuttal to an article in the same issue. In this case from Katherine Young—Nathanson’s long time co-author—who among her other concerns provides response to what she fears is Nathanson’s trivialization of several types of sexual harassment, and that his doing so will simply fuel the fire of misandry and ultimately deny justice to both men and women. She remarks that Nathanson takes only rape and violence seriously and trivialises other forms of harassment. Among other issues Young is dismissive of the implication that if women wear provocative clothing they are themselves responsible for the sexual harassment that might ensue. Similarly, Young points out the inconsistencies in Nathanson’s NEW MALE STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ~ ISSN 1839-7816 ~ Vol 6, Issue 2, 2017, Page i - v © 2017 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MALE HEALTH AND STUDIES. iii explication of ‘double-talk’ as it relates to sexual behaviour between men and women including in the workplace. The next article is a research piece by Gary Senecal and MaryCatherine McDonald that explores why current treatment strategies for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among combat veterans remains difficult to treat. They posit, using data from a phenomenological case study of a decorated war veteran, that sub-optimal treatment results from both a failure to look critically at the theoretical underpinnings of the disorder as well as the tendency to look to reductionist explanations and treatments. In the following article Gerhard Amendt expands on the hidden perspectives in the discourse of divorce. He posits that the political discourse about the consequences of divorce is dominated to a large extent by clichés about fathers (Unwilling father) and mothers (Malicious mother) and discounts the impact on the children. Among his propositions is that in divorce proceedings and settlements, children are the real losers because of their parents’ inability to deal with conflict, which plays out in an adversarial court system, often to their detriment. The oft result is fathers given limited access to their children and children to their fathers, yet still with the expectation that fathers are expected to provide for their now estranged family, which often then results in support disputes. Amendt remarks that the limited measure of understanding and empathy afforded divorced fathers in places like the family court and at youth welfare offices, denies the root causes of ensuing conflicts, denies reality and hampers solution-oriented action. From the subject of divorce we move to two articles dealing with circumcision. The first by Drs Lindsay Watson and Tom Golden, presents the results of a study evaluating the experiences of 22 men suffering grief as a result of circumcision . They found that the emotional turmoil arising in some men following circumcision is an under-recognised cause of male body-loss grief, and under-acknowledged when compared to the grief attributed by female ‘genital modification’. They found that therapists were reluctant to accept that the grief was real, were unaware of foreskin functions, denied circumcision had physical or psychological sequelae and tended to minimize patient grief using humor, cultural aesthetics, controversial health benefits, sexism and an erroneous understanding of penile anatomy and sexual function. Recommendations to improve NEW MALE STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ~ ISSN 1839-7816 ~ Vol 6, Issue 2, 2017, Page i - v © 2017 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MALE HEALTH AND STUDIES. iv therapeutic outcomes are provided. The second article by independent researcher Steve Moxon, explores the motivation for genital modification (GMo as he terms it) in both males and females. Moxon proffers that GMo for both males and females functions proximally in both sexes to denude sexual sensitivity, reducing propensity to engage in sex, and is designed to impede the likelihood of sex outside marital relations. He posits that the distal function of GMo diverges: that male GMo is controlling, whereas female GMo is ‘honest signaling’ of future fidelity. Moreover, contrary to accepted wisdom, he presents compelling evidence that GMo in females is both performed and advocated overwhelmingly by females, and that GMo advocated by males is directed at males only. The Issue’s next offering is a tragic tale by Daniel O’Ciardha, of child neglect and abuse, including sexual abuse inflicted on an innocent ‘paper boy’ from a poor, alcohol-saturated Irish household in the US Midwest rust belt during the 1960s and 70s. With no senior familial or sibling support, this evocative memoir describes the lasting trauma resulting from the experiences and the slow and painful emergence to a life of some normality. Dr Howard Siegal, a retired plastic surgeon specializing in breast surgery offers up the next paper on the subject of Gynaecomastia, or female breast tissue development in males. In it he explains that gynecomastia is more common than generally appreciated and that it and affects boys’ and young adolescent males’ lives emotionally and socially as well as physically. He advances that a better understanding of the causes of ‘female breasts’ in males is important in ensuring those affected receive the correct information about the condition and are aware of the range of options for its treatment. In the penultimate offering of Issue 6.2, Gerhard Amendt returns this time with a considered piece on the potential dismal future of gender relations stemming from the ‘ritual outrage’ arising from memo1 by disenfranchised Google™ employee, James Damore.
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