Virtually precisely 5 years in the past, I used to be sitting in a restaurant consuming lunch when an thought for a e book got here rocketing into my mind. I had been excited about my intercourse schooling, and all of the totally different locations that I had discovered about intercourse after I was a child. I’d had some formal intercourse ed in school, my dad and mom had offered me with a few books on the topic and I’d picked up just a few issues from associates. It occurred to me that an enormous chunk of what I believed I knew about intercourse as a teen got here from watching teen motion pictures all all through the 90’s and 2000’s. I’d gleaned an terrible lot of data from my regular weight-reduction plan of juvenile motion pictures, and I started questioning simply how that had impacted my concepts about intercourse and sexuality.
Quick-forwarding to now: having watched upwards of 120 teen flicks, learn a whole lot of journal articles and books on the topic, delved deep into my very own recollections, spent a lot of the pandemic hammering away at my keyboard after which one other yr enhancing and formatting, I’ve lastly bought my completed e book in my fingers and able to share with the world.
Apple Pies and Different Lies is a nostalgic deep-dive into the films I liked as a teen. I checked out teen motion pictures from 1995 to 2007 – from American Pie to Clueless, Merciless Intentions to Imply Ladies- to dissect the teachings they taught me about sexuality. I in contrast and contrasted the scenes in these motion pictures to real-life teen experiences and analysis that’s been carried out on teen sexuality throughout this era to find out how correct they’re. It was an interesting course of and I’m so excited to share the tip end result with you.
If you happen to have been a 90’s child who spent your Friday nights at Video Ezy, selecting motion pictures for you and your mates to observe at a sleepover, this e book is for you. If you happen to obtained lackluster intercourse ed in school and sought to fill the gaps with scenes from bawdy teen comedies, this e book is for you. If you happen to spent each faculty vacation on the cinema, or memorized your complete script to Empire Information, this e book is for you. And in case you’re a sex-positive nerd with a ardour for pop-culture, this e book is most positively for you.
The e book is on the market from an enormous vary of shops. For my Australian readers, you’ll be able to decide up a replica in my on-line retailer, or go to Booktopia or Readings. Abroad readers can go to Amazon, Barnes & Noble.
I’m so excited to share this e book with you. I’ve labored so exhausting to make it a actuality, and it’s been a lot enjoyable chatting with individuals about their favorite teen motion pictures, and the messed-up issues they’ve discovered from motion pictures after they have been starting adolescence. Once I suppose again on it, my writing about sexuality on this weblog was actually the beginning of me making an attempt to unlearn the teachings I picked up throughout my teen years, so this e book type of appears like my origin story as a sexuality author.
For everybody who has purchased the e book thus far, a large thanks. I actually admire your help. And for individuals who haven’t grabbed a replica but, what are you ready for?
