Sex Education for Boys

""A great book for parents, guardians, relatives, and mentors to read. All chapters are crucial for understanding physical, mental, and emotional changes. Great advice on how parents/guardians can learn to speak about sexuality and sex with their kids."" --Erica Campos, certified sexual health and life skills educator, founder & CEO of My Cuerpo Mi Body ""An incredibly inclusive and comprehensive, yet shockingly concise, resource for parents of male-identifying young people. This is a great resource to have at your fingertips to increase both your confidence and knowledge. Not sure how to talk with your son about sex? Have Scott Todnem, one of the foremost experts in the field (not to mention also a wonderful father), guide you through how to do it right. You should buy this book."" --Julia Feldman, sex educator and creator of @GivingTheTalk ""As an experienced sex educator for 30 years and a collector of hundreds of books about sexual health, I am always on the hunt for excellent resources, especially parenting books. This book is positive, factual, holistic, and includes helpful definitions while offering very practical advice, strategies, and tips. It's also encouraging and empowering, offering real-life examples and takeaways at the end of each chapter. It's a standout for parents who want to strengthen relationships and be wise, vulnerable, open, honest, accurate, inclusive, and respectful of the boys in their lives. I wish that I had this companion when my son was growing up!"" --Rowena Thomas, sexual health educator and founder of Amazing Me ""Scott's guide for parents not only answers most of the questions parents often have about how to consider and talk about bodies, relationships, and sexuality with their middle-age children, it answers them with great wisdom and care. Sex Education for Boys gives supportive, helpful, and clear help to parents. While cisgender boys and information about them is what's centered in this book, the information provided for parents is important and useful for those parenting youth of any gender, as well as for supportive adults who aren't parents but are still very involved with boys. This book is a great road map for raising boys who come to their bodies, to sexuality, and to relationships in compassionate, self-loving, beneficial ways."" --Heather Corinna, founder of Scarleteen, author of S.E.X: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties and What Fresh Hell Is This? and co-author of Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies and Growing Up ""So grateful to have this book to recommend to parents. We're all looking for more ways to bring good men into the world, and this book helps enormously."" --Sarah Sproule, registered occupational therapist, sexuality educator, and creator of Sitting in a Car ""This is an essential guide for parents and caring adults who want to raise boys that grow into adults who have the skills, knowledge, and self-awareness to positively navigate relationships, consent, and their sexual health. Though this book focuses on common experiences of raising cisgender boys, it does a wonderful job of taking an inclusive approach, giving caregivers the insights needed to navigate parenting a new generation of young people, not limited by the gender binary."" --Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW, founder of Sex Positive Families and author of Sex Positive Talks to Have With Kids