>>3978421
Boyhood is very beautiful thing, but no one gives it the attention or care it needs. Why is the Boy Scouts gone? Why are there no spaces for just boys to be themselves with other boys? How many places offer boys to be in a male environment without women teaching or "correcting" them? That's what felt so special about my own boyhood, that it was just us together, loving each other in the ways only we understood and knew how. I remember my friend and I in middle school would have sleepovers. We'd spend a lot of time shirtless or even wearing nothing but our underwear, and that was good for us because the body of the boy isn't perceived as scandalous as the female body. And so at night we'd share the same bed wearing basically nothing in the summer heat, and I remember how comfortable we were cuddling together with his arms around me and his skin against my chest. I tried describing that special type of love in this post:
https://boards.fireden.net/cm/thread/3929780/#q3930161
But this is why we need boys to be able to be with each other without the fear of having sexuality attached to their behavior. I'm straight but I haven't felt as loved by other girls as I did with my best friends.