Teen World Sex

Teen World Sex
Being a teenager is hard enough, but once the hormones start raging, all bets are off. These films will help you get through it (or remember it semi-fondly).
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Risky and risqué, indie films have always been a home for bold, honest, and controversial visions of teens’ sexuality . Eliza Hittman’s “ Beach Rats ,” opening this week after bowing at Sundance in January, is another notch in the belt of the sub-genre, a sensitive and often shocking look inside the coming-of-age of a young Brooklyn teen.
Like the best of these films, it’s not all about hormones; it builds on questions about identity and desire. But that’s there too, in sensitively crafted scenes that don’t skimp on reality. Punctuated by some bad choices and an unnerving final act, “Beach Rats” embraces the full spectrum of teen sexuality, even when it’s not exactly alluring.
Here are eight indie films that engage with the subject matter in appropriately intimate ways.
While “Beach Rats” isn’t an official sequel to Hittman’s previous film, “It Felt Like Love,” the filmmaker explores similar themes and structures and both, told from seemingly opposite vantage points. Set during another languorous Brooklyn summer, Hittman’s debut follows 14-year-old Lila (a fearless Gina Piersanti), awkwardly and constantly exposed to the sexual exploits of her older friend Chiara (Giovanna Salimeni), who goes through boyfriends and experiences with the kind of ease that Lila can scarcely imagine. Lila’s desire to be, well, desirable , finds her fixating on a local boy Sammy (Ronen Rubinstein) with a reputation, whom she doggedly pursues in hopes of striking up a relationship. Lila’s emotional immaturity constantly butts up against her deep physical desires, leading her into increasingly fraught situations she’s not equipped to handle. Like “Beach Rats,” Hittman slowly spoons out important revelations, but its the smallest details that hurt — and hit — the most.
Abdellatif Kechiche’s rigorously erotic three-hour romance initially spawned Cannes walkouts before picking up the Palme d’Or, split three ways between Kechiche and his stars Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, proof of the level of dedication all three of them poured into a wild (read: maybe even nightmarish) shoot. While “Blue” earned big buzz because of the obvious — its long-form sex scenes, alternately hot and totally exhausting — that only obscures the finer points that Kechiche and his ladies put on the ill-fated romance between Adele and Emma. Hormonally speaking, it’s essential that the film opens when Exarchopoulos’ Adele is still slogging through high school, all burning desires and deep boredom, the perfect time for her to meet and fall obsessively in love with the slightly older Emma. There’s no love quite like the first, and while Adele’s awakening isn’t just about sex, but also her sexuality, that her most formative of experiences comes at the hands of another woman is simply one facet of a highly relatable love story. Sure, audiences may still flock to the film for its unbridled sex sequences, but there’s no scene more telling than Adele, stuffing her sauce-stained face full of spaghetti, bursting with new desires that have to be redirected somewhere .
Awkward, horny teens eager for sexual satisfaction are hardly underrepresented in the entertainment world — hello, sex comedies — but films that center on teenage girls and their kinkiest desires are still outliers. Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s Norwegian festival favorite doesn’t shy away from showing off just how gross, weird, and yes, horny as hell girls can be, too, all filtered through the experience of indomitable Alma (Helene Bergsholm). When the film opens, Alma’s sexual awakening is already chugging right along, though it’s about as tragically amusing as it gets, punctuated by routine calls to a phone sex line and a mother who just doesn’t get it. Alma’s life gets both worse and better when a popular peer pokes her with his penis at a casual gathering (romance!), and she refuses to let him live it down, alternately turned out and a little freaked out. Her isolation grows (turns out, high school kids are awful), but her libido won’t be tamed — a strange mix that adds up to a risky, funny feature topped off by some big truths.
Dee Rees’ lauded feature debut (based on her short of the same name) is a revelatory look inside the fraught coming-of-age of Brooklyn teen Alike (Adepero Oduye), as she conceals her sexual desires — and, in many ways, her entire identity — as outside forces push her to be honest about what she wants. That’s a hard enough concept for even the most well-adjusted of teens to face, but for Alike, trapped by a restrictive family and pushed to conceal everything from her wardrobe to her taste in music, it feels nearly impossible. Rees peppers in moments of Alike embracing her true feelings, brief flashes of freedom that hint at who she could be if she didn’t need to hide, but they also live alongside nerve-wracking reveals that drive home just how trapped she is. For Alike, her sexual awakening comes hand and hand with her personal growth, and neither will be the same by the film’s moving conclusion. She is not running, she is choosing.
David Wnendt’s 2013 German drama goes there. And also there, there, and there, right around there, over there, and down there. If there’s an orifice for leading lady Carla Juri to probe in pursuit of pleasure (and maybe even some pain), she’s going to do it. Possibly also with a vegetable. The most out-there, oh-wow coming-of-age story of the century, a movie that makes the pie-loving of “American Pie” look embarrassingly infantile and “Blue Is the Warmest Color” seem suitable for family consumption, “Wetlands” is a riot of sounds and sights that run the gamut between dreamy and nightmarish. But for all its gross-out humor, “Wetlands” also packs an emotional punch, all of it hinging on Juri’s wild-eyed work as the wholly unique Helen, on the cusp of the rest of her life (and super-horny for it).
Marielle Heller’s 2015 Sundance hit “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is not your average coming-of-age story. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel 2002 “The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures,” the film bravely and brazenly turns its taboo subject matter — the sexual awakening of a teenage girl — into a funny, smart, and honest story that entertains as much as it educates. Bel Powley stars as Minnie Goetze, a precocious 15-year-old muddling her way through the swinging scene of seventies-era San Francisco. Like many girls her age, Minnie is struggling to find her place in the world, a journey made all the more difficult by her seemingly unstoppable hormones. As Minnie taps into her burgeoning sexual desires, her life takes a turn — straight into the arms of Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard), her mother’s boyfriend. Heller deftly navigates questions of consent and issues of age, and Minnie makes it clear that she’s making her own decisions, even if they’re probably bad ones.
James Ponsoldt’s 2013 adaptation of the Tim Tharp novel of the same name (beautifully written for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber) has often been hailed for its sensitive depiction of addiction and its fresh spin on the classic teen romance, but it also takes on sexual awakening in a moving way. Inexperienced Aimee (Shailene Woodley) is seemingly no match for the confident Sutter (Miles Teller), but when the pair fall into a hazy relationship, she bravely embraces the possibility that they could have something real. Inevitably, that includes Aimee losing her virginity to Sutter, in an achingly real sequence that sees Woodley assuming control and guiding the pair into one of the most relatable and emotional love scenes in recent memory. That it also handily deals with issues of consent and doesn’t try to be salacious just for the hell of it makes it even better, and further illustrates the different ways in which both Aimee and Sutter are coming into themselves, with sexuality as just one face of that maturation.
Tucked inside Julia Ducournau’s midnight movie, a visceral, challenging, and often jaw-dropping genre feature about cannibalism, is a tasty treat of a coming-of-age tale. The film follows a young student (Garance Marillier) who discovers some uncomfortable truths about herself (and the world) when she heads off to vet school (kind of the perfect setting for a body horror film), most of them centered on her evolving relationship with meat. All kinds of meat . Initially restrained and severely buttoned up, Marillier’s Justine eventually takes a bite out of her burgeoning desires when a weirdo school tradition activates her hunger in a myriad of ways. Ostensibly a horror movie with bite, Justine’s journey from vegetarian to meat-lover also mirrors her descent into the desire for other kinds of flesh. A parable and a straightforward chiller in one bloody package.
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By ERIC M. STRAUSS, DENISE MARTINEZ-RAMUNDO and ALEXA VALIENTE
Brooke is a California teen who became obsessed with social media and being on her phone.
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How she managed to recover from her attachment to her phone and social media.
— -- Name a social media app, and 12-year-old Brooke was probably on it.
“FaceTime, Snapchat, Instagram , Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, Kik,” Brooke, now 15, told ABC News’ “20/20.”
The California teen got her first taste of social media at a friend’s house at age 11, and then shortly before her 12th birthday, she received a phone of her own – an iPhone . Brooke says she quickly became obsessed with the phone and social media.
“The second a text went off -- the second someone Snapchats me or FaceTimes me, I always answered, and I always waited and waited and waited for someone to reply,” Brooke said.
While her parents Jim and Stephanie estimate she was on her phone for hours from the time she got home from school to the moment she went to bed, Brooke says it was even longer.
“It was always about refreshing my feed and I’d stay up until like 4:30 in the morning,” she recalled. “It was my heart. I couldn’t put it down … It felt like a part of me.”
Watch the full story on ABC News’ “20/20” on Friday, May 19, at 10 p.m. ET.
As she became exposed to more through the internet and her phone, her parents Stephanie and Jim said Brooke became increasingly troubled, acting out at home. They say taking away her phone didn’t help end the trouble.
“The more she started to change and act out, the more we started to really … clamp down. Then that created anger because we were making it more and more difficult and blocking her from things and taking the phone,” Stephanie told “20/20.”
Though her parents tried to put an end to her excessive cell phone and social media usage, Brooke still found ways to access the internet.
“We would shut off service to the phone. We took her phone. She’d go and buy someone else’s phone. She would find old phones,” said Stephanie. “I would hide different things around my house so she wouldn’t get to them. She must have ransacked the house to find different things.”
“I was constantly making different accounts. I had like six accounts on Instagram. I had multiple Snapchats. I changed the usernames, the passwords. I would block [my parents]. I’d have other friends give me their old phones, iPods, anything, and I always had a backup ready to go,” said Brooke.
Jim and Stephanie said they would fight to take away Brooke’s phone and that anytime they did, the crisis became extreme.
“[She would] cry, yell, run upstairs, go in her room, slam the door,” Jim told “20/20.” “There was no relationship. We were just a means to provide her with food and shelter and money ... and a phone.”
Brooke’s parents say her phone and social media fixation opened a portal to a dark place, and her risky behavior in middle school escalated.
“[She was] just hanging out with the wrong crowd -- drugs, sex in middle school,” Jim said. “When she was home and she was up in her room, I always felt more secure, because, okay, she’s home. She’s safe. But it was a complete false sense of security because she’s up there in her room with her phone on the internet.”
Brooke began drinking alcohol and using drugs. Her parents later discovered that the then-12-year-old was also sexting with strange men that she said she found through social media and while using mainly the messaging app Kik.
Men she met online would even persuade her to send them nude photos of herself.
“They had no respect for me. It was just like, ‘Send me this,’ like, ‘Do it now!’” Brooke said. “I was up all night, sending pictures [of myself to strangers]. When I did it and I got those compliments, I got that attention, and it just made me feel really good.”
Brooke was adopted as a baby and her parents say that led to attachment issues. She has also been diagnosed with ADHD.
“When you take a phone and social media, and you put it in the hands of a teenager, and then throw in some mental illness, she just becomes very vulnerable,” said Jim.
But Jim and Stephanie didn’t realize how vulnerable 13-year-old Brooke was until one day when police showed up at their home. The officer informed them that Brooke and a friend were involved in a dangerous online relationship.
“There were some inappropriate pictures that had been sent [of herself],” said Stephanie. “This person was blackmailing the other friend of hers for more pictures or they were going to put them all over the internet and things like that.”
Brooke was bullied and shamed over her online mistakes.
“I think it was just years and years of bullying, pretty abusive relationships in many ways, and I think losing all my friends,” said Brooke. “I think I just got to a point where I kept getting hurt. I kept doing things that I knew didn't make me happy, but I just continued to do it because I had nothing else to do.”
And then, in an act of desperation, Brooke wrote a suicide note on her phone, which somehow accidentally appeared on her father’s phone.
“I opened it up and it was a suicide note,” said Jim. “I couldn’t believe it. It was scary,”
“I just got to a point where I just didn’t even know why I was here and why I was still trying,” said Brooke.
Jim and Stephanie had Brooke committed that night. The first thing the attendants took away from Brooke was her phone.
ABC News’ “20/20” was there when Brooke took one of her home visits after spending nearly 20 months at Solstice Residential Treatment Center, where she is being treated for mental health issues, substance abuse, and excessive use of her cell phone and social media.
Therapists there help Brooke with her self-esteem. One of her favorite parts of the program involves her childhood love of horses. Using body language with these sensitive animals may help Brooke learn how to better communicate with others and build relationships.
Brooke has periodic visits home to gauge how she handles access to her cell phone and social media. As a precaution, her parents keep some of their old devices in a drawer so that Brooke only has access to her phone when they give it to her.
For Brooke, completing even a small task, like putting on makeup while ignoring her phone, is a victory.
“I think the first time I got [my phone], I was like, ‘Oh my god, I need to check everything. I need to be updated,” Brooke said. “[Now], I can do things and have it in my pocket and not need it.”
“I’m always hopeful. I’m hopeful every time that she comes home. But I’m also realistic, and I know that it’s a real struggle for her,” said Stephanie.
During the home visit, Brooke had an emotional meltdown. It was tough for her to see what her friends were up to on social media without feeling like she was missing out. “That was hard because a lot of my friends were busy going to those parties, and I wanted to be there,” she said. “It all hit me at once.”
Still, Brooke feels that she has become less attached to her phone after being without it for weeks at a time.
“I think the first time I got it, I was like, ‘Oh my god, I need to check everything. I need to be updated.’ Now I just text some close family friends at home, text my brother. I text some of my friends,” she said. “For the most part, I can do things and have it in my pocket and not need it. Right now, it’s not that big of an issue for me.”
In fact, Brooke says she’s a changed person.
“I'm completely different. I can be by myself and be okay and I'm reconnecting with a lot of things I love. And I don't feel empty,” said Brooke.
“She has so much self-awareness around herself and her mental challenges. She’s accountable for her past,” said Jim.
Stephanie added, “She said she’s not proud of it, but it’s her past and she owns it.”
Brooke’s parents say they don’t feel like they have their daughter back, but someone better.
“The communication between the three of us is so much better. It’s great,” said Jim.
Watch the full story on ABC News’ “20/20” on Friday, May 19, at 10 p.m. ET.
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Written by Pavitra Sampath | Updated : March 13, 2015 5:03 PM IST
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