Pathway 3P – Potential Impacts of Embracing Formerly Disavowed Masculine Identity on Sexual Feelings [P3P-22-23]

Proposed Learning Objectives

• Explain how eschewing one's own masculine identity can culminate in desire to be completed by another male; aka. homosexual feelings.
• Explain that we are socialized into our identities. So, developing on-going relationships with emotionally healthy males (peers, family members, and mentors) can redeem masculinity for those who have fled it and facilitate seeing one's self as a legitimate male.
• Articulate, with examples, how esteeming masculinity as noble and believing that one is legitimately a complete man can diminish the emotional need a man may feel to find himself in another man.
• Make the argument to show developing sexual feelings for the opposite sex, depends on experiencing the satisfaction of being a capable man who is valued by other well-respected men causes a man to feel he has something valuable to offer and can even make femininity seem exotic and alluring.