Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection By Niobe Way | Harvard University Press (2011) “‘Boys are emotionally illiterate and don’t want intimate friendships.’ In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they would go ‘wacko.’ …” — Deep Secrets