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Dance of the Hanged Man is Mark Greene’s tale of five boys struggling to survive a supernatural event in the dark woods of 1970s Texas. “It held McCollough by his throat and pulled him lazily across the ground, the old man’s legs hanging limp and motionless. McCollough’s head was back, bent at a contorted angle. He was not struggling. He was counting down his final breaths.”

Drawing on comprehensive interviews with young men, psychologists, academics, and experts in the field, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word "hilarious" robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys’ understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men’s experience in all its complexity, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important realities of young male sexuality in today’s world.