Maybe you remember the day your own arrived. Our boys have a lot to say, and they need as much help as possible in finding alternatives to Dick School. Salon spoke recently to Orenstein via phone about her new book, and the secrets boys told her that "pierced my heart. I'm so glad that you decided to do this pivot to talking about boys, because they're integral to the conversation and they really are so not a part of it. What I realized very early on was that we have been talking to girls for. It's really time to bring boys into the conversation, because nobody is talking to them. Nobody is listening to them, to hear how they're thinking about all these issues that are so crucial, not only at this historical moment, but in our lives for our wellbeing around sex and relationships and gender dynamics. What could be more important to our lifelong happiness than our relationships and our ability to navigate them and understand them? What was it that persuaded you that this was the book that you were going to write next?
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Please refresh the page and retry. More than half of children have encountered porn by the age of 11 to 13 and almost a fifth 18 per cent of them told researchers they intentionally sought it out, according to the biggest study of its kind by the British Board of Film Classification BBFC. Children said porn had changed their attitude towards sex and distorted their attitudes to consent so they did not believe it was necessary to ask or discuss whether to have sex. More than 40 per cent agreed that watching porn made people less respectful of the opposite sex. Parents are, however, in the dark.
Strictly speaking, of course, even indifference is a feeling, but I knew what they meant: They wanted to know if they could have sex without caring: devoid of vulnerability, even with disregard for a partner. I thought about those boys this week as I watched Harvey Weinstein, in an Oscar-worthy performance of abject harmlessness, hobble on his walker into the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan. The MeToo movement has exposed sexual misconduct, coercion and harassment across every sector of society. Weinstein ends up with fingers crossed the longest prison sentence in history.
