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When I first started as a volunteer with Men Stopping Rape, I assumed that many people understood all about rape. Over the years, I have met and spoken to many people who indeed do "get it." But many do not have to or want to understand how complex this topic is. As I started a business traveling to high schools, colleges, corrections, the military, I found that I needed to define my terms so that when I would say "rape culture," "homophobia," "racism" or "male survivors of incest or other sexual assault" people who might bring me to their school could read my newsletters and get a better sense of what I believe and how I speak. I was "educating my market" so to speak. Many educators have called or written to say that the newsletter helps very much to give them a sense of my style and content.

I hadn't initially necessarily planned a certain number of further issues of my newsletter. The response to the first newsletter was stunning. There certainly were many important topics to write about. Each issue has grown in size (16-20 pages) from the initial 8-page issue. In response to many requests, I am now selling subscriptions to the newsletter. I now have over 300 subscribers. Back issues are available for sale as well. For subscriptions or back issues see the subscription order form or the back issue order form. At the present time, I am mailing out just under 3000 copies of each newsletter. Approximately 2000 go to personnel at 4-year colleges; 300 go to rape crisis centers; 450 go to prep schools; and approximately 300 go to friends and allies (not that there are not friends and allies at schools). I don 't have an exact timeline, but these newsletters will be rewritten as chapters for a book.

Vol. 4, No. 2, September (?) 2000 Programs for Girls and Women: Beyond "Do's" and "Don'ts"

 

1997

Vol. 1, No. 1
March, 1997 First Edition

Premier Edition

Vol. 1, No. 2
August, 1997
Concerns for Educators
Talking to Athletes

Concerns for Educators Talking to Athletes • Educating Athletes-Facing Ourselves • Sexual Assault Defined • Welcome to the Locker Room • Who Do These Derogatory Epithets Hurt? • Athletes Are Just Like Other Men Only More So • Do All Athletes Deserve to be Role-Models? • The Real Lessons of Athletic Competition? • Athletic Department Staff As Rape Prevention Educators? • Are Athletes More "At-Risk" to Commit Sexual Assault? • How Rape Affects Males • The Worst of Athletics Reinforces Assaultive Behaviors and Attitudes • What's Really Behind the Fear of the False Report of Rape • Some Thoughts on Defensiveness • Male Athletes' Body Image Problems: Trapped In Their Bodies? • Some Male Athletes Are Survivors of Incest or Other Sexual Assault • Big Muscles, NOW! • What All Serious Rape-Prevention Sessions for Athletes Should Include • Consent: Teaching Athletes How Not to Commit Sexual Assault

Vol. 2, No. 1
January, 1998
Creating A Safe Space For Education & Rape and Racism

Creating A Safe Space For Education • Safe Space Invitation • Safe Space Intro As "Early-Warning" • Safe Space For Survivors, For All • What Safe Space Isn't • Separate Gender Groups Are Safe Spaces • Men Learning To Feel Safe With Other Men • Men Feeling Safe Enough To Confront Other Men's Negative Behavior • Men-Bashing • Charges of Men-Bashing From Women • Fear of Change = Not Feeling Safe Rape and Racism • The Connection Of Rape And Racism • Superstar Scapegoats • We Know Why They Commit Assault: Mike Tyson On Trial • Do We So Readily Assume We Know Why White Males Assault? • Biased Media Coverage Creates Rape Ambivalence • When is a Crime not a Crime? • Victim-Blaming • "Was That A Real Rape Or A Date Rape?" • Black = Stranger/Black Perpetrator = Rapist • Steal This Material

1998

Vol. 2, No. 2
August, 1998
Sexual Assault Prevention: From Reaction to Taking Action & Increased Reporting Of Sexual Assault On Your Campus Is Positive

Sexual Assault Prevention: From Reaction to Taking Action • Making Some Male Students Uncomfortable • Some Assumptions Behind My Perspective • The Birth Of Rape Prevention • Rape Prevention Education: Whose Responsibility? • Date Rape on Campus Is Not New • Men In the Rape Prevention Movement Allies or Impediments? • Making Change: Is It Possible? • My Secrets To Help Create Change By Communicating Honestly With Students • Whom Are We Educating? • Students: Taught How Not To Think? • Welcoming Students' Questions • All Males Will Benefit From Education • Prevention As A Process, Part 1. Intervene • Part 2. Personalize The Issue • Part 3. Create New Paradigms • Increased Reporting Of Sexual Assault On Your Campus Is Positive • Reported Sexual Assaults vs. Unreported • What Increased Reporting Means • My Answers To Student's Questions • Some of My Workshop or Speech Title

Vol. 2, No. 3
December, 1998
How Boys Become Men: Deciphering the Lessons of Enigmatic Fathers & How Homophobia Affects
All Boys and Men

How Boys Become Men: Deciphering the Lessons of Enigmatic Fathers • How Boys Become Men • The Unsafe World of Boys • Where Boys Learn to Be Real Men: "Our Friends the Beer Commercials" • Silent Fathers Engender Silent Sons • Fear of Telling Our Fathers We Love Them: Homophobia? • Even Liking Men Is Suspect • Is Love Gay? • The Necessity of Teaching Love • Creating A New Language of Love How Homophobia Affects All Boys and Men? • Boys Learn to Fear A Caricature of Homosexuality • Fighting Fire With Humor • Dolls: Another Cause of Homosexuality? • Demystifying Homophobia • Homophobia v. Rape Prevention Education • If Rape Prevention = Gay, Does Rape = Straight? • Homophobia and Sexual Assault • Teaching Abstinence Compromised by Homophobia • Desperate Acts • Male Survivors: A Preview From the Next Issue of the Newsletter • Hey, We Educators Are People Too • What Can You Do at Your School?

1999

Vol. 3, No. 1
August, 1999
How Boys Become Men, Part 2: Growing Up Alone & How to Be a Supportive Listener For a Relative, Friend or Lover Who Is a Survivor of Incest or Other Sexual Assault?

How Boys Become Men Part 2: Growing Up Alone Includes: Feelings (Whoa, Whoa, Whoa) Feelings • The "Interior" World of Girls, The "Exterior" World of Boys • The "Threat" Girls and Women Represent • Pussy-Whipped • Examining the Myths of Raising Sons • Obsolete Fears Still Govern the Raising of Boys: The Gay Two-Year-Old • The Gender Role(r) Coaster • Who Will Protect Boys? • Who Raises the Boys We Abandon? How to Be a Supportive Listener For a Relative, Friend or Lover Who Is a Survivor of Incest or Other Sexual Assault Includes: Why Teach Boys and Men? • Rape Prevention Appealing to Boys' and Men's Better Instincts and Impulses • Why Teach Girls and Women?

2000

Vol. 4, No. 1
January, 2000
Male Survivors of Incest & Other Sexual Assault (Part 1)

Male Survivors of Incest & Other Sexual Assault (Part 1) • Tell Your Sons, Tell Everyone's Sons • In This Issue • Non-Issue or Too Daunting to Touch? • Why the Sexual Assault of Males Matters • "Real Men Don't Get Raped:" How the Lie Sets Boys Up • A Historical Grounding for the Discussion • A Troubling Context For This Discussion • Male Survivors Need Not Be A Threat • Just How Many Are We Really Talking About? How Many Is a Problem? • Some Reasons Male Survivors Deny Their Experience • Homophobia and the Sexual Assault of Males • The Sexual Assault Of Males By Males Is Not Homosexual Sex Nor is it "Homosexual Rape" • Goading All Males/Re-victimizing Male Survivors • "Hazing" and Other Euphemisms for Assault • Helping All Males Differentiate Between Sex and Sexual Assault • Exonerating "Exemplary" Perpetrators • Men's Program Abuses Male Survivors • Implications for Rape Prevention Education • A Secret to Teach Men Empathy • Finding Support For Male Survivors • Male Survivor Reading List