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The Lonely Men's Revolution: Solving the Male Connection Crisis

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Dive into the alarming trends behind male loneliness-from shrinking friendships to dating app dynamics. Drawing from the U.S. Surgeon General's research, Harvard's happiness study, and insights from Andrew Huberman, discover five evidence-based solutions to a crisis that's literally shortening lives.

The Lonely Men's Revolution: Solving the Male Connection Crisis
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Men’s Sheds
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https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/mens-sheds
Online ‘manosphere’ is moving misogyny to the mainstream
link
https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/news/2025/03/104113/online-manosphere-moving-misogyny-mainstream
The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web
link
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07600
A Call to Men
link
https://www.weps.org/resource/call-men
Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say
link
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/13/study-manosphere-ofcom
Making a Radical Misogynist
link
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08805
Trends in Frequency of Sexual Activity and Number of Sexual Partners Among U.S. Adults, 2000–2018
link
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767066
Why I’m done trying to be ‘man enough’
link
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/83OhjZcY
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
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https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness
The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss
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https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-american-friendship-change-challenges-and-loss/
Dr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/dr-anna-lembke-understanding-and-treating-addiction/
Richard Reeves — Why Do Modern Men Feel So Left Behind?
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-modern-wisdom-30936734/episode/855-richard-reeves-why-230713178/
Guest Series: Dr. Paul Conti — How to Build and Maintain Healthy Relationships
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/guest-series-dr-paul-conti-how-to-build-and-maintain-healthy-relationships
No More Mr. Nice Guy
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/no-more-mr-nice-guy-by-robert-a-glover
Of Boys and Men
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https://www.brookings.edu/books/of-boys-and-men/
Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men
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https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/10413
What’s Causing the Male Friendship Recession?
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https://soundcloud.com/artofmanliness/727-whats-causing-the-male-friendship-recession
Scott Galloway — How Can Men Take Charge Of Their Lives?
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https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/modern-wisdom-622875/episodes/716-scott-galloway-how-can-men-194218074
Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04840
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK595227/
The Truth
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-truth-by-neil-strauss
The Game
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-game-by-neil-strauss
The Rational Male
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-rational-male-by-rollo-tomassi
Home away from home: Health and wellbeing benefits of Men’s Sheds
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https://abdn.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/home-away-from-home-health-and-wellbeing-benefits-of-mens-sheds
Disintermediating your friends: How online dating displaces other ways of meeting
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908630116
Science of Social Bonding in Family, Friendship & Romantic Love
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/science-of-social-bonding-in-family-friendship-and-romantic-love
The lethality of loneliness
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hxl03JoA0
The Boy Crisis
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https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Boy-Crisis/Warren-Farrell/9781948836135
The Good Life
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-good-life-by-robert-waldinger
The Hidden Tragedy of Male Loneliness
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https://soundcloud.com/artofmanliness/670-the-hidden-tragedy-of-male-loneliness
Suicide Mortality in the United States, 2002–2022
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https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db509.htm
Men’s Sheds as an alternative healthcare route
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https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-10585-3%E2%80%8B
Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta‑analytic Review
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https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/7519/
Neil Strauss — Why The World’s #1 Pickup Artist Left The Game Behind
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-modern-wisdom-30936734/episode/789-neil-strauss-why-179979840/
Men Without Work (Post‑Pandemic Edition)
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https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/men-without-work/9781599475974/
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