My books Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories, Manhood: The Bare Realityand Womanhood: The Bare Reality attracted worldwide media coverage and critical acclaim. The emphasis was on comfort and openly discussing bodies and manhood, rather than any pressure to show off the penis as a glorious, huge presence, and each man was kept anonymous while sharing their stories.

Many of them share their frustrations with the emotional limits men so often grow up learning to impose on themselves; several share their arduous journeys of making peace with difficult pasts rooted in toxic masculinity. Just as Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories presented the un-airbrushed truth about breasts for women, Manhood: The Bare Reality shows us the spectrum of 'normal', revealing men's penises and bodies in all their diversity and glory, dispelling body image anxiety and myths. Lastly, each chapter features a new partnered exercise alongside every solo exercise from the first edition.From smooth Barbie dolls to internet porn, girls and women grow up with a very narrow view of what they should look like, even though in reality there is an enormous range. The same themes run through everything I do: my work is an exploration of people, our lives and our place in the world. Hearing these men’s stories was an absolute privilege and honour and I am very grateful for the experience.

And I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have a way of hearing those stories other than through a book like this (or not until I'm 92 myself), so, thanks Laura. This is crucial to our development of sexual selfesteem, particularly in the digital era of pornography, dating and hookup apps.Through eight chapters in three thematic sections, personal sociology is illustrated by the author’s reflections on activities from his own life that expand these particular experiences into broader sociological concepts.

It’s not the first time that she has used intimate photographs to explore ideas about identity, gender, sex and society – nor was that project immune to double entendres.The inimitable words of poet/goddess Hollie McNish once again hold up honest, damn funny and refreshing takes on the everydayness of our lives . I was struck by how many of the interviewees talked, often at some length, about the impact of medical conditions on their sex lives and their relationships. It isn’t the beautifully composed, gorgeously lit portraits that tell us about men, although there is that. Which is why Laura Dodsworth’s new book Manhood: The Bare Reality, in which 100 men reveal all, took me by surprise. At the end of the day, as the above quoted man said, we’re all human; we shouldn’t assign certain ‘tasks’ to certain genders.