By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - The boys have bodies that cry out for action and rough play – the metabolism, the endocrine glands, and the musculature determine the direction of play, in boys as in other physical creatures. The girls have bodies directed toward the bearing and the nurture of children. Everyone knows it. That is why it must be energetically and vociferously denied, with obvious and severe punishments for anyone who would deny it.