In 1995 Reinhold Munding drew up an expert report on sex-education work with boys for the BZgA. How has work with boys developed since then and what concepts have proved themselves both in theory and in practice? These are questions that are all addressed in the second report.

This report describes the development of the “work with boys” into an independent, gender-specific social and pedagogic service provided by men for boys and young men. “Work with boys” is described in the context of the current state of research. It will be shown to what extent work with boys has established itself as an important (sex-)educational area of work in light of social changes, dissolving gender roles and social tendencies towards individualization, and to what extent it is receiving political anchorage.

In addition the report offers an overview over the structure and distribution of services regarding work with boys in Germany. With the help of a nationwide questionnaire targeting providers and institutions of work with boys, it examined which institutions offer work with boys and on what basis this occurs as regards content, money and personnel. Besides questions about the structural framework of work with boys the survey was also interested in the target group, i.e. boys.

It was the goal of the report to determine the boys for which services are available, what services boys seek out on their own initiative and how often contact with the boys takes place.
On the basis of the survey results and the theoretical background the author developed a definition of what work with boys should incorporate and what its tasks are or should be.