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Ep 25: Boys and sex (and porn…and masturbation…) with Peggy Orenstein

Raising Good Humans

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The Cost of Resilience for Boys

Boys who hold rigid ideas about masculinity are six times more likely to sexually harass girls. They're also more likely to bully, be violent and have violence committed against them. And so you're trying to inculcate your son with this idea that he should completely detach from his own vulnerability is doing him a tremendous disservice," she says. "That doesn't mean that a person's a wimp"

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