Alan Close is the author of "Before You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s Troubled Search For Love." He edited "Men Love Sex", a benchmark anthology of stories by men about love and relationships and is a former columnist on men’s issues for Good Weekend magazine.
I came of age in the 1970s during the first wave of feminism. In those days, when I was making my way into adulthood and trying to find out what being a man was…
