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From doomscrolling to sex: being a boy in 2024
I travelled the UK interviewing teenage boys. I found openness, thoughtfulness, honesty and vulnerability on topics from sex to pornography, feelings and isolation
It was two separate conversations that made me think properly about what life might be like as a boy these days. The first was about a 13-year-old, the son of a friend, who said he had been rounded on for making a small (and, he thought, complimentary) comment about a girl’s haircut.
He told his mother that the girl’s friends were outraged: “Oh my God, you can’t say that about someone’s appearance. That’s so bad. You can’t talk about a girl like that!”
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Teacher guilty of sex with two boys
Rebecca Joynes is told to expect to go to jail after being convicted by jury.BBC News - Top stories -
Boy, 5, dies in fall from block of flats
A neighbour says the boy's parents are "inconsolable" after his death in east London.BBC News - Top stories -
Boy, 5, who died in fall from block of flats named
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Funeral for boy, 5, who fell from block of flats
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Being Muslim in Modi’s India
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