Stories by Brooke Scelza

Brooke Scelza is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s department of anthropology. She is co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, where she studies parenting and reproductive decision-making in rural Namibia.

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OpinionSeptember 19, 2024

Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science

Brooke Scelza