Teenage Sex

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1996, Scream taught American teenagers the first rule to surviving a horror movie. Never, ever have sex. Classic slasher movies have their roots in an urban legend we all heard growing up: a guy and a girl are parked on a deserted lover’s lane making out while a hook-handed killer is on the loose. The 2000s gave us urban legends about dangerous teen sex games, Rainbow parties and sex bracelets, as well as bans on high school dances over grinding and twerking, and with the recent outrage over teen sexting, it seems that kids these days are out of control. But since the invention of the American teenager, rumor and outrage has swirled around this reckless developmental stage. Through looking at the start of teenage culture in the 1920s, when risqué dance trends and controversial make-out parties scandalized the nation, we’ll find the roots of these modern moral panics, and see how our battles around sex education have left them in an uneducated limbo, creating suburban legends to make sense of their parents’ utter horror at their private lives. American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Show art by Roache Voice Acting by Will Rogers Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this season we'll be exploring the moral panics, urban legends, and conspiracy theories
0:04.8	that shape our psychology and culture and why we end up believing them.
0:08.9	I'm your host, Chelsea Lover Smith, and this is American Historia.
0:13.7	This rockin' rose a musical noise, so dramatic about decades, and here is possible youth.
0:19.9	Police found naked photos of him at age 16 on his own cell phone,
0:23.9	and was charged with making and possessing child or nougat.
0:27.7	District says that that type of dancing anyway is sexually suggestive.
0:32.4	Absence for young people is the only certain way to avoid
0:36.0	sexually transmitted diseases.
0:47.0	In 1996, the self-aware slasher scream, hit theaters, and taught American teenagers
0:53.2	the first rule to surviving a horror movie.
0:56.3	Never, ever have sex.
0:58.4	It's a running joke that the slutty girl always gets butchered first,
1:02.4	usually sprinting half naked through an open field, often at the tail end of a night of a
1:07.4	illicit partying.
1:09.0	Classic slasher movies like Halloween have their roots in an urban legend we all heard growing up,
1:14.4	either hunched around a campfire or at some late night sleepover,
1:18.1	whispering around a collection of candles.
1:20.8	A guy and a girl are parked on a deserted lover's lane making out,
1:24.5	the guy trying to convince the girl to go all the way,
1:27.7	the radio crackles, a hook-handed killer is on the loose,
1:31.7	and these necking teens are vulnerable and not just to an untimely death.
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