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Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity Audiobook
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The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter now turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men, once again offering ""both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve it"" (Washington Post).
Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls—steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity—which equally affect how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of young people to once again give voice to the unspoken, revealing 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, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word ""hilarious"" robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys’ understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men’s experience in all its complexity, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important realities of young male sexuality in today’s world. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men.
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“Orenstein[‘s] conversational pace and tonal shifts lend themselves well to an audiobook that features several interviews as it engages listeners with a deeper understanding of how boys think and behave….An excellent audio choice, especially for caregivers who want to improve their conversations about sex with boys and gain a deeper understanding of what perpetuates toxic masculinity.”
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“Eye-opening and nuanced, this compassionate exploration of boys’ sexual lives gives voice to their deepest struggles and should be mandatory reading for anyone who cares about the next generation.”
— Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author -
“Expertly written…[A] candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity.”-
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“A crucial contribution to the long overdue conversation about masculinity.”
— Michael Ian Black, author, comedian, and actor
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About Peggy Orenstein
Peggy Orenstein is the author of several books including the New York Times bestsellers Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Girls & Sex, and Boys & Sex. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, she has been published in USA Today, Parenting, Salon, the New Yorker, and other publications and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered.