The Pros And Cons Of Masculinity

A question that is often asked by many women is “are all men the same?” The answer is no. One position about what it is to be a man is that society often stereotypes all men as sex driven beings, this is partially because men under certain circumstances may feel a social pressure. While this is for the most part physically and psychologically accurate, many men over time grow and change their beliefs or feelings towards sex. A second position is that a man’s environment can affect who they are, and momentarily or in some cases, for an extended period of time can determine their level of “masculinity”. This can be either negative and positive depending on the situation.

Almost every woman in her lifetime has heard the phrase “Men only want

These men usually either have “experienced monogamy, double standard, pure monogamy, or polyamory”. In the studies on men’s sexual experiences it said, “We do not find an automatic correspondence between similar life course patterns and the adoption of similar scripts” (Bertone 377). This information means, that even if men at one point in their life (their adolescence usually) may be sex obsessed, they will not always remain this way. Men are not all after one thing, and while some of them may have been sex driven at one point in their life, that does not mean they stayed that way. Men are stereotyped as “self oriented” while women are stereotyped as “other oriented.” The reason for this is that in most cases, the woman is assigned to take care of the children and other domestic roles, while the man has greater involvement in competitive markets (Cuddy). Gender roles and stereotypes are often placed on men because of where they live, or their expectations their upbringing put upon them. “Men align more closely with the core cultural values of a given culture than do stereotypes of Women” (Cuddy). A mans environment usually affects who he becomes as a