Foreword -- Sex and gender: the battle between body and soul -- Men and their bedrock: "repudiation of femininity" -- What do men want? -- Male sexuality and mental void -- Offending gender--being and wanting in male same-sex desire -- The battle of the sexes -- The loneliness of the homosexual -- The presence of males in abortion discourse and practices -- The sexed body and the real--its meaning in transsexualism -- Masculinity revisited: a self-deconstruction -- Boy's envy of mother and the consequences of this narcissistic mortification 1.