Casting off the cobwebs in The Red Knob Coal Bunker and dusting ourselves down, it’s not often that we post a missive on the Red Knob blog in these days of The Catastrophe brought to us by the current overlords at UK Plc – if you stick your helmet (oo’er) above the parapet too many [...]
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Hunkier than thou? Sexual attraction? One thing leads to another, fnar fnar etc? It’s a conjecture that a straight guy’s take on ‘wimmin‘ lies somewhere between Nick Hornby’s novel  ‘High Fidelity’ and Charles Bukowski’s  semi-autobigraphical view  - ‘Women‘. Take your pick as befits the mood you’re in – or as Mr Wild Billy Childish may ( or may not) [...]
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Back in 2001 the Gloucestershire Boys and Young Men Network came together as a mulitagency/disciplinary group to facilitate health work with young men – predominantly sexual health and mental health work. The rationale for this body of work is detailed in the journal WYM – working with young men Vol 2, No 2, May 2003. [...]
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Well, the folks at The Red Knob may at times appear cryptically cross with the state of health and things in general (feel our spleen over the last couple of apoplectic posts ) – we’re not exactly enamoured of the current public services pogrom and the swingeing cuts that are and will continue to disrupt [...]
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We’ve got a bigger problem now?  to quote one Jello Biafra , or: I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in [...]
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Hey Kids – The Dick here. Long time no speak. How’s it going out there? Feelin’ a bit different since last time we were on the case? Well, here we are post election, if ya could call it that. Hangin’ chads ? Chicken feed. As usual, all promises will be revoked. The modern human race? [...]
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Or to slightly misquote Prendergast’s work – “it’s not just a discourse of pinks and blues” Whether or not they are aware, practitioners who work around young men’s sexual health issues are encumbered by a theoretical debate which lies at the root of all health work with men: do we attempt to challenge and change [...]
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