So you cover a lot of movies in this book.

And I'm just really curious, what brought you to these films that you wanted to talk about together on Moss in this book?

You know, I keep saying this.'s uh these are the movies of my teenagers i porkies opens when i was 13 and i

never quite recovered from that uh and then fast times at richmond high opened uh the very first

friday of my freshman year of high school in

1982 Ferris Bueller opened the day after I graduated in 1986 so those four years

where the bulk of the movies that we think of of this genre came out was when I was

actually in high school so these were the movies mirroring a high school experience

very much

unlike my own up on the big screen. Sure. There's a, there's a line you have in here, and I wanted

to ask you about this. You say teen sex comedies, this is the end of your introduction. Teen sex comedies

are relatively innocent. And the adolescent, and we've been talking about the higher end ones,

but there's thousands, you know. And the adolescence of the 70s and 80s really were the last

American virgins because of the internet, that there was nothing in the end that were played.

This is a medium that is gone. And can you talk about why that is? Like, what happened to the teen sex comedy?

Well, first you have the PG-13 rating, which decimated,

decimated, R-rated exploitation films.

Because with a PG-13, you have a much wider audience available.

So the type of guys who are making movies for fast bucks, which were, you know, the guys making, you know, surf two and King Frat and all the crazier stuff, they're going to then make softer movies.

But more than that, it was the ubiquity of the VCR and with it, the instant easy access that adolescent boys had to hardcore pornography.

Yeah. How are you going to get them excited for a 10-second peak in a locker room

when there is a world of full contact, all-out pornography available to them?

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