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Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
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93/100Author:
Peggy Orenstein
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
January 7, 2020
Peggy Orenstein uses anecdote and research to reveal how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. Drawing on comprehensive interviews with young men, psychologists, academics, and experts in the field, she takes an unprecedented look at the myriad factors that are shaping boys' ideas of sex, girls, and masculinity.
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To be clear, none of these subjects are new, and men who read this book might not learn anything revolutionary. What Orenstein does excellently, however, is condense, clarify, and draw out the perspectives of the boys and men that she interviewed — their voices, interspersed with her own, lift the book up, hopefully showing readers that they are not alone in their experiences.
Orenstein’s Boys & Sex is a natural follow-up to her 2016 best seller Girls & Sex. The young men we meet here tend to be hyperarticulate — to the extent that I was initially skeptical of their eloquence.
Through a combination of extensive interviews with young men and sociological research, the book seeks to move beyond the space of think pieces written by men and actually include them in the conversation. It gives readers a digestible overview of the problem.
...an equally-indispensable companion volume...which duplicates the methodology of the previous book: dozens of interviews, a great deal of supporting research, and most of all the author’s consistently superb analyses.
