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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.
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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. While three quarters 75 per cent claimed their child had not seen porn online, 53 per cent of their own children said they had viewed it. Parents were less likely to suspect their daughters viewed porn - just 17 per cent - even though similar proportions of boys as girls watched it, 68 per cent versus 58 per cent, according to the survey of 2, children and their parents by researchers Revealing Reality. David Austin, BBFC chief executive, said the ease of access to porn was in danger of normalising it for children, with 18 per cent of 11 to 13 year olds and more than a third of 14 to 17 year olds saying the had viewed porn in the past fortnight.
For the last 25 years, journalist Peggy Orenstein has been documenting and dissecting the inner lives of teenage girls in America, exploring why some young women struggle with confidence or harbor secret Disney princess obsessions. Her method is simple: she talks to teens—hundreds of them—then compiles their stories to share their internal struggles with the world, providing the rest of us with a nuanced look inside their homes, schools, friendships and more. Orenstein: When the Kavanaugh stuff was happening, I checked in with boys and said, "How are you guys talking about this? If they talked about it, it was just with girls. Why is that, do you think? People were like, oh my God, we've layered all these new expectations over the old ones without actually getting rid of the old expectations. It was causing this huge tension and pressure on young girls, which I think is sort of where we are with boys.
