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

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

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