Adolescence: what teen boys really think of girls, influencers and porn

青春期:青少年男孩们对女孩、网红和色情内容的真实看法

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2025-03-31

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From misogynist content creators such as Andrew Tate to the ubiquity of pornography, boys face a barrage of toxic influences. We talk to sixth-formers about the pressures and joys they experience. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian.

  • Today.

  • What is it really like to be an adolescent in 2025?

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  • What do you like about being a boy?

  • Not much.

  • Not much, Why?

  • I think there's a lot of negative stereotypes about being a boy at the moment.

  • I think they've always been there.

  • But at the moment,

  • especially with a lot more women speaking up about being either sexually assaulted or things of that sort,

  • a lot of men,

  • even if you know you've never done anything of the sorts,

  • you do feel partly a guilt for your whole sex having this negative stigma around it.

  • If someone says masculine to me,