Real Man Adventures [Book Review]

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A testosterone fueled adventure through sex and gender, unlike any you’ve seen before featuring a man battling a shark on the cover.

How We Can Improve Sex Ed for Boys

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Justin Cascio talks to Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, about why boys are tuning out in sex ed classes, and what they want to know most (but aren’t telling us).

Miss Leland

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‘The best times were always the summers,’ begins Robert Reece’s fond recollections of steamy nights in Leland, Miss.

Teen Beat, or How I Love the College Game

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Yago Colas explains why, despite all the youthful mistakes, the turnovers and the bad fouls, he loves college basketball.

Hair Down There

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A sign that a boy is becoming a man is commemorated by his family.

The Big Jump

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Steve Jaeger takes you back to his last summer in Coney Island, when he was finally tall enough to ride the Parachute Jump.

Forgiving Those Who Take Forever To Come Out

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Orlando Soria tells his own story of coming out and how he learned to understand why others find it so difficult.

What Has Been Found Guilty in Steubenville?

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An entire set of unspoken assumptions has been dragged out into the light.

Half the Men Who’ve Ever Lived Did Not Reproduce

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Andy Bodle thought being a redhead would keep him a virgin forever, until Boris Becker won the 1985 Wimbledon and gave gingers a second chance.

New Rites of Passage for Young Men

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How to create meaningful rites that young men want to experience.

Puberty: 3/16

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Like puberty isn’t bad enough, but some people have to go and write about it.

Helicopters in the Stomach

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A young Andy Bodle gets his first lesson in survival of the fittest.

How Feminism Screwed Up My Love Life

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Terri Trespicio’s personal memoir of how she accidentally conflated being strong with being single.

Urinals, Graffiti, and Boys Being Seen

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Being invisible in a high price to pay for being a teenage boy.

Open Thread: What Youthful Cruelty Do You Regret?

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You were a jerk sometimes when you were a kid. Which incidents still eat at you?

Young Boys Need Self-Esteem to Survive

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Anthony Carter knows how hard it is to survive a childhood that was critical of who he was. He wants that to change for the boys of today.