The Male Eunuch.

Have we lost our sex?

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“I practice alone a lot.” Woody Allen

Why are men practising alone a lot these days? Did we confuse “getting in touch with ourselves” with actually touching ourselves?

Or is gender equality causing more anxiety than we realize? We can’t wrap our heads around it, so we wrap our hands around — well, you know.

It’s the only thing reminding us that we’re still “masters of our domain,” which isn’t much if you’ve seen our domains.

A male friend remembered Greer setting her hair on fire at a party. She was a strong advocate for change, revolution and possibly self incineration.

In Germaine Greer’s 1970s book, “The Female Eunuch,” she told women they need to be in touch with their own sexuality, since everything men do, and have done, and all the trappings of a male-dominated society, have served to “devitalize” women.

“The world has lost its soul,” she wrote, “and I my sex.”

Greer called on women to find the “freedom to run, shout, talk loudly and sit with your knees apart.” A male friend remembered Greer setting her hair on fire at a party one time. She was a strong advocate for change, revolution and possibly…