Adolescent sexual conflict: are we still going to the movies? (1974)
1974 · Short film · 13 min
Synopsis
This 14-minute film is designed to create an atmosphere in which people can speak seriously and openly about their thoughts and feelings concerning sexual behavior. The film concerns the conflict a young couple faces because of their different attitudes toward sex. At the point of maximum tension, the film ends and a narrator appears and poses questions to elicit a discussion of feelings, attitudes, and values. The publisher indicates that this film is appropriate for senior high students, college students, and adults. The film can be shown to a large group of students followed by a group discussion.The teacher may wish to test student knowledge of the subject prior to viewing the film as well as direct the subsequent discussion to meet the particular needs of the group. An instructor's guide accompanies the film and contains an introduction to concepts dealt with in the film, objectives to be covered, a synopsis of the film, a list of key terms, and a variety of test questions. At the end of the guide are recommended resources helpful for follow-up exercises.
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Details
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Collection
- Educational Films, Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Adolescence
- Sex instruction
- Sex role
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · pressure picnic · Dr-Pretorious · 2022-01-24
The most complicated layered analyzed picnic I've ever seen. Doesn't help that Jack is a Jack ass. 1974 and males are still stereotypical one dimensional selfish horn dogs. And...I want Jeff & Lloyd to also breakdown the scene man.
★ · Unintentionally accurate portrayal of an entitled asshole throwing a mantrum for not getting his way · SerendipityRain · 2025-08-22
This film met every expectation I could have had for it, in the worst way possible. By Jack's own admission, they'd been having sex for six months (we were going good), but Dana's been feeling like he sees her as a walking flesh light and wants him to do LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE with her besides sex and that's too much to ask? I know that even in the 70's, the concept of women being more than just a receptacle for a dude's spew wasn't unknown, and that the idea that your TEENAGE relationship should be about finding someone who you get along with as a person wasn't a foreign concept. Why are…
Interesting · nobodychair · 2026-10-08
Basically a "meet in the middle" moral lesson set against a couple's relationship at the point of crisis. What can be gleaned and used in real life relationships, I have no idea. It's not obvious the crisis in this example can be solved. After all, we see only 10 minutes of the character's entire lives. It's hard enough for some of us to even know our own lives, having lived them directly.
