What is it like to be a man in a country that has lost the war? What is it like to be a man in a country where sex is taboo not only for women but also for men? What’s it like to be an old-fashioned playboy in the twenty-first century? And what is it like to be a macho man and to be constantly taunted and insulted? Margriet van der Linden looks for answers to these questions in an attempt to understand today’s man.