Reclaiming Vulnerability: How Emotional Expression Enhances Men’s Health
Men often deal with societal expectations that prevent them from diving into their sensitive sides as women can. Crying, for example, is a big taboo and is considered to be a show of weakness in their masculinity. Showing similar forms of “weakness” is often discouraged and ridiculed. Such toxic expectations can be detrimental to men’s health, leading to mental problems and even other physical problems like erectile dysfunction (ED) and premature ejaculation (PE).