November 12, 2024

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In her Los Angeles mom circle, Joanna Schroeder is known as the unshockable one. A parenting writer and media critic, Schroeder is writing a book about raising teenage boys, so, perhaps unsurprisingly, her friends often ask her for parenting advice. Recently, one called with a sensitive question: “How do I explain to my 13-year-old son how sex actually happens?” The mother had managed to steer her son away from porn, but he was still in the dark about some basics — not condom use or consent, but choreography. “Spark. Romance. He’s interested in how people go from, like, kissing to actually putting a penis in a vagina,” she explained.

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