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Boys, Sex and Masculinity w/ Peggy Orenstein

Sex With Emily

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Why Do You Always Put It in Quotes?

Boys are wrestling with these issues. They don't have models of it. And their culture, with their parents, they're involved in this,. Like the bro culture, which you talk a lot about, yo. So i've started using, sociologists use this term am precarious masculinity. It's still avocative of what gets triggered um for for guys in certain situations that makes them act in ways that are not advantaging them or their partners. The thing that always interested me was sort of the contradictions people live with. With girls, it was sort of about all these new expectations that we had of girls while also hanging on to these old assumptions that we hadn't really dispensed

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