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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/books/puberty-book-pulped-growing-up-for-boys.html

Parents often turn to books to help them navigate complicated, and sometimes uncomfortable, conversations with their children about puberty. This week one such book, “Growing Up for Boys,” by Alex Frith, became the topic of the type of conversation it is supposed to help people avoid.

On Aug. 27, Simon Ragoonanan, a British father who blogs at Man vs. Pink, posted a passage on Facebook from Mr. Frith’s book that claimed girls have breasts for two reasons: “feeding babies and looking grown-up and attractive.”

Mr. Ragoonanan said that a follower of his blog alerted him to the book, which was originally published in 2013. “The context of this book is that it’s aimed at boys, young boys, when they’re forming their opinions about women. It was worrying that this kind of passage was out there,” he said in an interview.

Usborne Children’s Books, the book’s United Kingdom-based publisher, quickly apologized for the passage and announced on Aug. 31 that it would destroy its remaining stock of “Growing Up for Boys.”
 
The section might have been written by a 13 year old boy.
Might as well learn about boobies the old fashioned way: Spy on someone's older sister.

Funny thing is, the author might have originally written something more realistic and biological, and the editor said , "re-write it in terms a boy will understand."
 
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These "now that you've reached puberty" books for boys should be written by humorless earnest feminists.
Can't have boys reading patriarchal sexist misogynistic propaganda.
 

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