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Exploring Teen Sexuality in Pop Culture: Insights from American Pie

This lesson delves into how films depict teens' struggles with sexuality, the emergence of teen sex comedies, and American Pie as a cultural sex education manual, offering insights on adolescent masculinity at the millennium. Examining the history of teen sex comedies, including Porky's and American Pie, we explore themes of sex, coming of age, expectations, activity, romance, raunchiness, and their impact on societal norms. Join us in dissecting the influence of teen sex comedies on young audiences, with a future focus on Twilight fans.

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Exploring Teen Sexuality in Pop Culture: Insights from American Pie

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  1. Teens and the Return of Raunch Culture at the Milennium FMS 394: Lesson 13

  2. Guiding questions • How have films represented teens’ struggles with their sexuality? • When does the teen sex comedy emerge? • How does American Pie function as a sort of pop culture sex education manual? • What does it tell us about adolescent masculinity at the turn of the 21st century?

  3. Teen Sex Comedies: A Brief History • Early Film Representations of Teen Sex • Metaphor and melodrama • Teen “sexploitation” pics in the 1980s • Raunch, responsibility, and romance Porky’s, 1982

  4. American pie as instruction • Sex and coming of age • Expectations of teens • Activity and prowess • Sex and comedy • Sex and romance • Raunchy, but is it radical or conventional? American Pie, 1999

  5. Next Time on fms 394… Teens As Fans featuring…Twilight

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