Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity

by Justin Baldoni

I have learned to come to terms with the understanding that while this particular book may be done, my learning and growth is not.

So why now? Why this book? Well, because I need this book. Badly. I needed this book as the ten-year-old boy who was shown porn for the first time long before his body or mind was ready for it, likely paving new neuropathways linking images of naked women to happiness and false feelings of self-worth.

I needed it as the twenty-nine-year-old who had finally found the love of his life, staged one of the most elaborate proposals of all time, and then also found himself having cold feet for no other reason than what society was telling him would happen to him once he got married. I needed it as the thirty-one-year-old who was about to have a daughter and had no idea what to do or how to raise her because he realized that for most of his life, despite believing in equality, he had not treated women with the respect he knows they deserved,