Peggy Orenstein decided to pursue a social study of sex education among today's youth as an exploration into the unfortunate issues that were treated by the Me Too movement. She found that a serious part of the problem was that among the boys of her studies, there was a chronic lack of direct and informative sex education. Her writing covers important comments from many interviews which she conducted with a random sample of high school and university aged men. Over 100 were interviewed.
In these extensive interviews, Orenstein was able to identify a trend among the boys that there was suffering caused by their sense of masculinity and the social expectations that many young men believed themselves to be measured against. She found that boys reported feeling creatively stifled by masculinity as their social measure was often a measure of their capacity. This and many other toxicities among the social construct of masculinity led her subjects into situations where they felt they did not have enough information.
She proves in her interviews that the definition of consent is not widely accepted, but in her writing, she explains that without educating men about their ethical and moral responsibility to obtain consent, the society places men and women in danger of frantic moral failures like rape or molestation. She feels that pornography plays a serious role and explains in her writing that the versions of male sexuality which are popularly shown in pornography are often hyper-aggressive as pornography naturally veers toward the extreme.
