Boys

Save boys from tween tramps!
Boys need rescuing from hypersexualized pubescent girls?
Indians prefer boys
Despite modernization, many Indians continue to have sex-selective abortions. What's more, the trend seems to be growing.
A vaccine for gentlemen
If Gardasil is approved for boys as well as girls, will parents choose to inoculate their sons to help protect future sexual partners from cervical cancer?
Teenage boys not so sex crazed?
According to a new study, they also care about love ... and stuff.
Why aren't boys allowed to be victims?
When it comes to sexual abuse perpetrated by women, boys are treated as lucky little Lotharios.
Fishing for boys, pedicures for girls
A 9-year-old girl is banned from a boys-only day camp and offered a spa trip instead.
Is my 13-year-old son gay?
I think my seventh-grader was looking at some gay porn. What do I say to him? What do I do?
Want a boy? Change the kitty litter
A parasite found in cat feces could affect your baby's gender.
What else we're reading
Madonna in Malawi, the war on children, cat poop affects babies' sex and more!
Vaccinating boys against HPV
Professor proposes equal-opportunity vaccination against an equal-opportunity virus.
My mother died when I was 16 and I never dealt with it
My wife tells me I'm only half-present -- could there be some connection?
My son, the stranger
The sweet boy I raised is gone, replaced by a sullen, scornful teenager. It may be a phase, but it's breaking my heart.
Dear college applicant, So sorry to hear you're a girl ...
An admissions officer apologizes to all the qualified girls she's had to reject in favor of boys.
Boys! Give me boys!
Before I had children, I said to myself: "Better boys than girls. Boys are easy." But raising three young sons is wilder than I could ever have imagined.
Lost boys
While girls surge ahead in all subjects at school, boys are lagging behind. Is "girl power" to blame? Do boys need their own dose of "empowerment"?
Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson
Raising Cain
Boy behavior
I tried acting like a guy to get laid. It worked, but it takes a lot of energy to be the aggressor.
It's payback time
In "The War Against Boys," author Christina Hoff Sommers claims that unfair programs to empower girls have taken a toll on boys.
Growin' up
We defiled one another with bourbon and blow jobs, back when New York was more conducive to decadence.
Facts of life
One wonderful, confusing, sweaty summer in Miami, I got my first lessons about sex from my pal, my dad and a Jersey girl.
Ugandan sex slaves released
After four years of sexually servicing rebel soldiers, kidnapped Catholic schoolgirls are finally freed.
Hormonal rages
A new study links decreased levels of cortisol with aggressive behavior in boys.
Go get 'em, tiger
A single T-ball mom admits her crush on the heroically patient coach of the perfect kids' game.
Don't stand so close to me
The Supreme Court ruling to protect school districts from liability in sexual harassment cases leaves students to protect themselves.
Temporary god
Even a mother's love can be replaced.

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