Non-Toxic Masculinity
Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality

As much as I want men to read The Great Sex Rescue, I want women to read this book. Really enjoyed it. There were moments where I thought that his insights were overly basic but this might be a problem with the reader, who unfortunately has an insatiable (and damned) appetite for constant novelty. A......more

Zachary Wagner covers a dizzying array of issues in this book, unpacking the implications of evangelical purity culture on men's internal experiences, perception of their sexuality, and relationships with women. Wagner makes space for a range of different experiences, and in addition to sharing his......more

Finally, a book about how purity culture harms men, written by a man. Zachary Wagner writes with the heart of a pastor and the empathy of a fellow survivor of purity culture. Through his personal story, interviews, and cultural commentary, Wagner makes a powerful argument for how purity culture dehu......more

Between a 3.5 and 4/5. In an age of #MeToo, #ChurchToo, and numerous high-profile sexual scandals and crimes involving powerful men, Zachary Wagner's 'Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality' is a sensitive and winsome book that pastorally addresses the crisis of masculinity that has......more

Having read several books adjacent to this and followed the American Christian Twittersphere and podcast world over the past many years, not much of this felt new or novel, but the book itself is quite good. First of all, Zach is a good writer, writes with nuance, sits in necessary tensions, and cle......more