What you agree to when you send a story

1. It's yours

You keep the copyright to everything you send. By sending it, you give What Men Really Think permission to publish it on this site and in the Sunday Edition newsletter, exactly as you wrote it. That permission is not exclusive: you can publish your story anywhere else you like.

2. Nothing is changed

Your words are published as written or not at all. I don't fix grammar or spelling, and I don't rewrite. The only things I add are the labels readers see: the subject, the kind of piece, and the Explicit tag if your story has rough language. If something has to change before it can run, I'll tell you why and you decide.

3. What you promise

• You are 18 or older.
• The story is your own, in your own words. You didn't use AI to write it, and it isn't someone else's story.
• It doesn't name or identify a private person.
• It has no politics and doesn't preach, promote or attack a religion.
• If it touches on suicide or self-harm, it leaves out how.

4. Translation

If you write in another language, your piece may be translated so more men can read it. Your original is always published alongside the translation, and your version is the real one.

5. Taking it down

You can ask me to take your story down at any time, for any reason, by emailing write@whatmenreallythink.com from the address you sent it from. It comes off the site right away. A Sunday Edition email that has already gone out can't be called back.

6. Your privacy

You write under a pen name. Your email address is used only to tell you what happened to your story and is never shown, sold or shared. It never leaves our own servers.

7. No payment

Nobody here is paid, including the writers and me. Sending a story doesn't create any payment or employment arrangement.

8. The decision

I read every story and decide what runs. You'll always hear back: published as written, sent back with the reason, or declined with the rule it crossed.

The Publisher