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The Lovely Ladies of Men’s Issues want to challenge ‘toxic’ stereotypes of men and raise awareness of men’s rights… by taking their clothes off for a calendar.

The group, founded by Vanessa Lussier (otherwise known as Modern Medusa on her YouTube channel) claim to ‘fight against the narrative that labels men as misogynists, rapists and violent animals’ and raise awareness of negative aspects of male sexuality such as false rape accusations, genital mutilation and male rape.

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Vanessa said: ‘Women have so many groups supporting them. Speaking about women’s issues isn’t necessary.

‘FGM is illegal while male genital mutilation, otherwise known as circumcision, is still a tradition in America.




‘Now that women basically have all their rights, men have issues too. Why can’t we talk about them?’

Vanessa Lussier’s YouTube page (Picture: Barcroft)

She is known online as Modern Medusa (Picture: Barcroft) She continued: ‘Everyday, you see positive reinforcement for women’s sexuality. You can wear whatever you want. ‘But with men it’s different, because they are not as free to express their sexuality. We are all about telling men it’s ok to have sexual attraction.’ Vanessa has been championing men’s rights since high school where she says she witnessed friends becoming increasingly feminist and hostile towards men. She, however, describes herself as a non-feminist and referred to feminism as ‘cancer’. Vanessa, along with fellow activists Reading Wren and Becky Quinton, came up with the idea to create the Lovely Ladies of Men’s Issues calendar 2018 to promote men’s rights. The girls pose for photos for the calendar (Picture: Barcroft) The calendar will feature information about men’s rights (Picture: Barcroft)

The calendar will raise awareness of men’s issues (Picture: Barcroft)

Vanessa and Reading will feature in the calendar, alongside other supporters of the movement, with facts about specific men’s rights issues for each month.

Reading, said: ‘I think the sexy calendar format is a more playful way of getting people to notice some of the issues that are going on.’