Rearview Roadkill: Manhood

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  Keeping dry the torches of evil passions: children and sexual purity

  I lost my virginity at nineteen. By modern standards that’s disturbingly puritanical.  It’s even more alarming when one considers that my sexual education was a fifteen-minute film during the 7th grade featuring animated penises and a cartoon vagina. This speedy entrance is nothing I’m overly ashamed of though I don’t shout it from the church [...]

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  Abortion and the failure of men

  He was freaking. His future had vanished in a puff of disposable diapers and sleepless nights. Their relationship, ornamental by nature, was at it’s best quid pro quo. It was the view of each other’s material advantages that kept the romance going. The sex was good but not ‘death do us part’ good. There was [...]

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  Kings of Make Believe – a different take on boys and video games

  The needle slipped painlessly into the vein. The chemical release was swift. The effects were instant. A world opened like I’d never known. I now controlled my destiny. Like God, I held life in my hands. The drug sank its fangs deep and gorged on my remaining will. Friends and family became invisible; I only [...]

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  The end of chivalry

  I grew up around lots of women. On my mother’s side the woman to man ratio was over two to one. Having a mother who was stay at home during my formative years meant most of my days were spent in the shade of her and the other heroines of our family. As such I [...]

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  Two words that will destroy any relationship

  I remain slightly cynical of couple’s counseling. Which is surprising when you consider half my marriage was spent soaking in its waters; but for the life of me I can’t think of a single nugget of wisdom derived from all those hours on the couch. I’m not entirely hostile to this form of therapy, I’m [...]

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  2012 Redux – the good, the bad, and 20 posts I’m kinda proud of

  This is the second year of Chopperpapa. Frankly I’m surprised to have made it this far without throwing in the towel, 80% of blogs fold in the first 90 days never to be resurrected. If that’s true it means I’m well beyond puberty now. I’ve learned one thing from it all, practice does come with [...]

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  What Joseph of Nazareth can teach us about being a man

  The infancy narrative, the birth of Jesus Christ, is one of the most widely known and beloved historic accounts in all of human history. In the days to come, countless children will perform its reenactment and clergy will reaffirm its significance the world over. While their place in our story of redemption can’t be overstated, [...]

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