It concerns a group of Florida teens hellbent on losing their virginity, who visit the titular establishment hoping a prostitute can help them Of the smutty subgenre, as hilarious and risque as ever. The movie that inspired countless copycats and still remains a benchmark Here are a few examples, ranging from the classic to the obscure, of the many, many times Hollywood has resigned its membership to the Big-V club, landed its first Martian probe on Venus, attended the Bush Inaugural Ball, or whatever other terrible euphemism you prefer, for the glorious rite of passage/horrible fumbling catastrophe that is having sexual intercourse for the very first time.Īrguably the “ Citizen Kane” of teenage sex comedies, this is 'Adventure Time' Is Slowly Going Off the Air, And Everyone's Moving Onĥ0 Essential United Artists Movies Amazon Will Own in MGM DealĢ021 Emmy Predictions: Who Will Win at the Primetime Emmy Awards? IndieWire's Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn Picks the Best Movies of 2020 - Year in Review But again, that can be part of their charm. (Side question: is there any more prudish word in the world than “raunchy”?) On the flip side, though, the sex comedy will always try to test those boundaries and so, more than many genres, directly reflects the morals and mores of the times it’s made in, which is why cherry-poppin’ films made two decades ago can feel hopelessly dated.

Hollywood’s double standard in regards to sex and violence is well documented, but it does seem kind of odd that you can go to the theater and see someone’s viscera explode in 3-D pretty much as soon as your age is in double figures, but a naked breast or, God forbid, a penis…? But these films, in which there’s often a lot of talking, planning, but not necessarily a great deal of skin bared, like their protagonists, get to walk the line between innocence and experience-they get to play in raunchy territory without necessarily falling foul of the censors. In fact, it’s telling that so many of the American films that deal with the subject do so from the vantage point of a “smutty” comedy (leaving stuff like “ Kids” aside for a moment). Really it’s a screenwriter’s dream-an (almost) universally relatable life-stage conundrum (in the Western world, anyway) that is ripe with potential for misunderstandings, social embarrassment and awkwardness, and that’s just within the more comedic end of the spectrum. With seemingly another R-rated comedy released every week, (this week’s being “ The To Do List” starring Aubrey Plaza, opening this Friday, read our review here), The First Time has become increasingly well-trafficked territory, and it’s not hard to see why. And even if you were to try very hard to expunge the memory, Hollywood will do its best to keep on reminding you anyway. You never forget your first time, they say.

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