Cannot talk about sex with your teenagers?
The following is a NYtimes article by Daniel Handler "What interests teenage boys? You’re smirking, but this is a question that occupies many of us in the field of young people’s literature. It’s well-documented that girls are reading more than boys, a statistic of increasing concern. I write books for children under the pen name Lemony Snicket, and I’ve noticed that when I go to Lemony Snicket events, the crowds are about evenly split between boys and girls. But I also write young adult books, and if more than one boy shows up at one of my teen book club events, it’s notable, if not a miracle. Something happens once a young man hits puberty . . ." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/want-teenage-boys-to-read-easy-give-them-books-about-sex.html
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