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A fourteen year-old Catholic schoolgirl looks for answers about sex from a nun, a downtown clinic and a pharamacy.
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Shauna is has many questions after her boyfriend J Bobby, has asked her to have sex. He says she won't get pregnant and that nothing bad will happen. Her sex ed instructor is a nun who says that abstinence is the only form of birth control and that losing your virginity is a path to the devil himself. Shauna isn't sure who to believe or what to do...
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Shauna is has many questions after her boyfriend J Bobby, has asked her to have sex. He says she won't get pregnant and that nothing bad will happen. Her sex ed instructor is a nun who says that abstinence is the only form of birth control and that losing your virginity is a path to the devil himself. Shauna isn't sure who to believe or what to do...
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Matthew Terrell
Posted on August 29, 2007 at 06:59 PM | Permalink
Review of Sex in the City and a Catholic School Girl
This piece is overly constructed. What is being passed off as a real-life story comes across as blandly rehearses lines from a teen's day.
The boyfriend J. Bobby is obviously reading a script, the Nuns make for overblown caricatures, and the clinic woman is the only thing that comes close to a real person.
I'm not sure why it was chosen to go in this direction -- I think a less controlled, people actually making off-the-cuff remarks piece would be much stronger.
The ending is a bit vague and expected, I almost wanted Salt'n'Pepa's "Let Talk About Sex" to come up. The moral we get at is that we should openly and honestly discuss sex with youth -- but the conflicts in this story are so flat and built up that it ruins the ending -- making us laugh rather than feel touched at the final lines.
If our reporter would have just sat and recorded her thoughts and then recorded real-life conversations with these people, then I think we would have a better view into her world.
Technical issues: sound dips between interviewees, I can hear the mic banging around, and the ambient sound is awkward.
Don't construct real life events!
matt terrell
youth editorial board
generation.prx.org