Bluebearding, or Why The Boys Are (Still) Not Alright

If we want to know what boys want, let’s start from the terrible room.

What do men want? Almost a hundred years after Freud launched his inquiry on Was will das Weib, Western culture seems to be embroiled in a distinctly different and vexing problematic. In a sprawling trade press literature and gamut of op-eds, the crucible of human sexuality is no longer that of the enigmatic, insatiable woman, the belle dame sans merci …