The Slow Dance

Sex and…murder? How did teens adopt the language of serial killers in their conversations about sexuality? This episode sees the teens at both their grittiest and their most romantic. 

Porn: it's contents and discontents. This episode is all about fictions and realities. The teens take us through what we see on screen, and what it's like in real life.

What could be more cringey than Sex Ed? Bad Sex Ed. In this episode, the teenagers take us through the many and varied ways in which formal sex education is not fit for purpose in the 21st century. When sex ed is vague, homophobic, patriarchal, scare-mongering, how can we find ourselves implicated in it? As ever, the teens have some good ideas.

This week, we look at a particular, popular, and controversial corner of social media: sending risqué photos. A photo says a thousands words, but it also lasts forever. This week, the teens navigate the overlapping borders of play, objectification, self-fashioning, and agency in the world of 'Send Pics'. 

Let's start at the very beginning. Firsts. In this episode of The Slow Dance, you'll hear teenagers talk about the beginnings of lust. Is it part of puberty - or earlier - or later? We'll hear about the joys and the sorrows of first kisses, first relationships, first sexual experiences. We'll journey into house parties and playgrounds. And we'll question whether passing the threshold from virginity to sexual being is a 'fall from paradise' or a lifelong adventure.