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Equimundo Bylines delivers research grounded cultural analysis on masculinities and the social forces shaping boys and young men today.
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The Culture that Enables the Cornell Seven (opens the original)
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I was sexually assaulted in middle school. I was in a fraternity in college. A member of my fraternity sexually assaulted a friend. I’ve personally been impacted by and seen many sides of the disgusting behavior of the Cornell Seven.I know what it feels like to lose a part of yourself that you’ll never be able to get back. I know what it is like to be at a frat party where women experience sexual violence. I know what it feels like to be afraid to say something to your friends because you’re wor
Belief in Oneself, Skeptical of The System: The State of American Men in 2026 (opens the original)
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Combine 1,500 survey responses, four focus groups, thousands of Reddit posts, and hours of transcripts from young men’s favorite podcasts, and you get near-limitless angles on what young men in the United States are thinking and feeling today.As authors of the State of American Men 2026, the third version of the flagship report Equimundo launched in 2023, we were charged with balancing the confluence and clash of data points, emphasizing nuance while searching for an overarching story. This requ
The Male Birth Control Revolution We Should Be Talking About (opens the original)
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From JD Gorman of YMRPThe headlines scream of a fertility crisis. The architects of Project 2025 attribute plummeting birth rates to the decline of traditional values and the destruction of the nuclear family. In these supposed “good ol’ days,” many women didn’t get to choose how many children they would have. Fertility was largely decided by men. Others cite the rising cost of living and the unpredictability of today’s world, not to mention the vast uncer
What The Top Fortnite Subreddit Tells Us About Young Men’s Digital Worlds (opens the original)
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Fortnite is arguably the defining video game of the past decade. This third-person “battle royale” has eaten up millions of teenagers’ after-school hours since it was launched in 2017 while penetrating mainstream culture in a way that few video games have. The product is free, yet Epic Games – the developer – has raked in billions in revenue through its microtransaction-based economy that relies on in-game purchases like cosmetics or battle passes.Fortnite has amassed a massive and dedicated fan
Grifting, Incorporated (opens the original)
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I really wanted to dunk a basketball at 14 years old.An eighth grader at the time, I was lean and lanky, tall but not too tall. I mostly played shooting guard for my middle school team, and as the summer before my freshman year approached, I was keen to replicate the prodigious teenagers I’d seen go viral on YouTube for windmill slams and effortless alley-oops. I wanted to stand out once summer league started, and dunking seemed like the easiest, most eye-catching way to do that.I was ambitious
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