Archive - Boys & Men Online

When investing starts to look like gambling

Molly White on crypto’s broken promises, financial nihilism, and the risks facing everyday investors

Aug 24 • David Sasaki

38:53

Digital technology may displace work by displacing marriage

This week’s digest: technology’s effects on marriage and men’s work, rising debt from online gambling, and the myth of the manosphere “rabbit hole”

Aug 19 • Anders Knospe

Why Gen Z Is Waiting to Date

One young man on milestones, the role of TikTok, and what might bring romance back

Aug 17 • David Sasaki

40:04

Sports Betting Education Must Go Beyond the Math

How to Prepare Boys for a Gambling-Saturated Internet

Aug 11 • Isaac Rose-Berman

Does problem gaming start offline?

This week's digest: need satisfaction through gaming, porn on social media, and social media's harm to girls

Aug 5 • Anders Knospe

July 2026

There Is No Gambling News

While prediction markets generate controversy, sportsbooks keep attracting billions of dollars.

Jul 30 • Jonathan D. Cohen

How gambling apps target boys under 21

Sports betting is nominally illegal for anyone under 21. In practice, that's a farce.

Jul 29 • Ben Samuels

The opposite of addiction is not recovery; it's connection.

Steven Wolt on consuming pornography to avoid intimacy and discomfort

Jul 27 • David Sasaki

28:17

How Are Young Men Struggling—and Thriving—in 2026?

We want an answer, and we want your feedback on our plan to get it.

Jul 23 • David Sasaki, Anders Knospe, and Fergus Navaratnam-Blair

Gambling guardrails: The promise and perils of facial age estimation

This week's digest: biometric gambling checks, prediction-market pricing and manipulation, and new evidence on loot-box streaks and safer defaults.

Jul 22 • David Sasaki

Can courts redesign addictive tech?

If Congress won't act, should judges decide?

Jul 20 • David Sasaki

42:27

How do age verification laws affect porn use?

New evidence from 500,000 devices

Jul 16 • David Sasaki and Matthew Brown

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