Men Without Women (2017 short story collection) Men Without Women (2017 short story collection) Men Without Women (女のいない男たち "Onna no inai otokotachi") is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death. Kafuku, a veteran and widowed actor, hires twenty-four year old driver Misaki Watari to chauffeur him around Tokyo due to his license being revoked due to a D.U.I. and glaucoma. During their trips, Kafuku occasionally tells her about his life as an actor and his late wife's extramarital
Men who have sex with men Men who have sex with men Men who have sex with men (MSM), also known as males who have sex with males, are male persons who engage in sexual activity with members of the same sex, regardless of how they identify themselves; many such men do not sexually identify as gay, homosexual or bisexual. The term "MSM" was created in the 1990s by epidemiologists to study the spread of disease among men who have sex with men, regardless of identity. The term "MSM" is often used in medical literature and social research to describe such men as a group for