Teen Boys Need More Than One ‘Sex Talk’

In her new book ‘Boys and Sex,’ Peggy Orenstein makes the case for having more frank conversations with teens about porn, consent, and feelings. Even if you’d rather poke your eye out.

Sarah Begley
Elemental
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9 min readJan 13, 2020

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PPeggy Orenstein has been writing bestselling books about girls’ development for 25 years…

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Sarah Begley
Elemental

Director at Medium working with authors and books. Formerly a staff writer and editor at Time.