Reflecting on Peggy Orenstein’s New Book about Boys and Sex

Peggy Orenstein’s latest book, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity, responds to reader demand, as well as the #MeToo movement. Her new book is based on two years of in-depth interviews with 100 high school and college students, many of whom attend or have graduated from independent schools.
 
If you teach, advise, counsel, coach, or live with boys, Orenstein’s book will tell you all you need to know—and probably more than you want to know—about not only the complexities of hookup culture and sexual consent, but how today’s boys and young men struggle in the face of culturally imposed barriers to emotional literacy, genuine intimacy, and satisfying relationships. While Orenstein acknowledges that boys and men as a group remain exceedingly privileged and powerful relative to their female counterparts, her subjects’ narratives convince us that nobody is thriving in our gendered culture.

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