“Skins”: Teens Do Sex And Drugs
MTV’s American version of the hit British show Skins premiered on Monday night, and it’s just what you’ve heard about, and seen in MTV’s promos: Teens drinking and drugging, staying out all night, fighting with their parents, trying to help a pal lose his virginity, going to z-z-z-z-z… oh, sorry — my head hit the keyboard while I was typing phrases familiar to describe so many “daring†teen shows. Teenagers engaging in sex and drugs is about as brave as Sarah Palin praising guns.
Yeah, absolutely. Remember that stoopid movie KIDS that had everyone up in arms? It upset people because sex-and-drugs was hitting middle-class kids, whereas where and when I grew up, in an upper-middle-class community, sex and drugs were practically a yawn.