Dr. Casey Lawrence
1 min readMar 13, 2023

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Not equivalent to the Hayes Code at all. It's not about 'imposing my morality' so much as it is about depicting a crime as if its normal/okay (ie, to ply someone underage with alcohol to coerce them into having sex), as well as 'de-normalizing' male virginity. There's so much pressure for boys to have sex that it's seen as 'abnormal' for a guy to be virgin at 19, which is ridiculous. It's going to worsen the anxiety that we already know causes boys to turn to incel forums and the like by making it seem 'weird' or shameful to graduate high school without being sexually active.

Shows and movies depict sexual assault all the time. But when they do, usually they show that its wrong. They don't make it into a joke. "Wearing them down until they consent" is a form of coercion. This movie is a long rape joke, and the worst kind of rape joke: it punches down at the victim.

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Dr. Casey Lawrence
Dr. Casey Lawrence

Written by Dr. Casey Lawrence

Canadian author of three LGBT YA novels. PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.

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