Apple Pies And Other Lies

Growing up in the 90's, my weekends were punctuated with endless VHS tapes and sleepovers with friends. As the calendar flipped over to the 2000's and we became teenagers, those weekend gettogethers inevitably began to include discussions of crushes and our own emerging sexuality. My early years were spent in a conservative small town with little in the way of sex education and practically no access to sex-positive resources. As such, the teen movies of the 90's and 2000's taught me much of what I knew about sex and sexuality. This book is a love letter to the movies I grew up with, a deep-dive into the teen films of the 90's and 2000's and the depictions of sexuality they contain. I'm taking a closer look at how these movies shaped my own ideas about sex, and how they measure up to real-life experiences and sexual facts. Apple Pies and Other Lies explores the ways in which entertainment has been used to fill the gaps in our sexual knowledge, and why it's no substitute for comprehensive sex -ed.

• | Author: Vanessa K Bowen
• | Publisher: Vanessa Bowen
• | Publication Date: Jul 09, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0645725900
• | ISBN-13: 9780645725902