Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity Audiobook (Free)

The author from the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter now turns her focus towards the sexual lives of teenagers, once again offering ‘both an study of sexual culture and a guide on how best to improve it’ (Washington Post).

Peggy Orenstein’s Young ladies & Sex broke floor, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about youthful women’s right to pleasure and agency in intimate encounters. In addition, it had an urgent influence on its writer: Orenstein about Boys & Sex: TEENAGERS on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the brand new Masculinity noticed that discussing girls is only half the conversation. Boys are at the mercy of the same cultural causes as girls-steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity-which equally impact how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Kids & Sex, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of teenagers to once more give voice towards the unspoken, uncovering how young men understand and negotiate the new guidelines of physical and emotional intimacy.

Drawing on in depth interviews with teenagers, psychologists, academics, and experts in the field, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker area talk; how the phrase ‘hilarious’ robs guys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys’ knowledge of hookup culture and consent; and their encounter as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men’s experience in every its intricacy, Orenstein is able to unravel the concealed truths, hard lessons, and essential realities of youthful male sexuality nowadays. The result is normally a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed eyesight of how boys can truly move forward as better males.