Orenstein is clear in her mission, explaining that this book will not be all things to all readers, and that, though she spoke with experts and researchers alongside the boys themselves, the book only scratches the surface of the culture surrounding boys and sex.
Author Peggy Orenstein delves into the urgency of the subject in the book’s introduction, exploring #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and other predators, and, of course, the fact that a misogynist sexual assaulter currently presides over the entire United States. Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter (Photo credit: Michael Todd)īoys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity is a timely and relevant read, perhaps even more so than its predecessor, 2016’s Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape-and it knows it.
