MEN spoke to issues such as trans awareness, wartime economies, sexual compromise, and demanding civil liberties.

[1][2] When the duo began to write new songs, it made sense to merge their efforts with Samson's other new project called Hirsute.

[1][3] MEN's debut album Talk About Body was released on February 1, 2011 via Iamsound Records in the US and through Sony/Columbia in Europe.

[5] In response to the arrest of members of the Russian feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot in 2012, JD Samson & MEN released a single and music video entitled Let Them Out Or Let Me In.

[citation needed] In late 2014, Samson decided to dissolve the MEN collective and move on to other projects.