One might read this film as a tacit admission that the family can't take care of all its members' needs Ñ that children sometimes need to go beyond their parents for grounding in certain complex areas. One boy, in fact, says his father "never says much about anything" relating to sex. "Oh, you know, when sperm comes out of your penis."Īpparently the gym is a safer place for sexual discussion than within the family, and we get a strong sense that Fifties men were supposed to learn about sex in and around the gym while Fifties women worked it out with their mothers. The gym was safe territory for sexual discussions and the coach a noncontroversial facilitator. Although it might not seem unusual today, the achievement of this film seems to me to be the way that it naturalizes sexuality and creates an open atmosphere where all questions, no matter how misguided, draw serious adult attention. Unlike Molly Grows Up, staged in the midst of the nuclear family, As Boys Grow shows sex education for boys as a team effort supervised by a fatherly coach figure. As Boys Grow, produced in the relatively liberal San Francisco Bay Area, presents regular boys asking regular questions and contains frank discussion of such topics as nocturnal emissions. It was unusual to show children speaking relatively freely about sexuality, and because of the necessity of educating girls about menstruation, more addressed girls than boys. Most of these films concentrated on the physiology of sex and reproduction and were replete with animated "plumbing" diagrams. Prior to the period of frankness that began in the mid-1960s, relatively few sex education films were actually produced in the United States. The coach is the authority figure and teacher. Deals with sexual organs, masturbation, wet dreams, and other male issues.
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