Perhaps there would be a few beats of horizontal kissing while a cutesy pop ballad warbled away. Concerning the action in the scene itself, perhaps a spaghetti strap would be tenderly removed from a shoulder to reveal a slip of bare skin à la Joey and Pacey’s first time on Dawson’s Creek. But the TV shows I was obsessed with during my formative years in the late ‘90s and early aughts presented it with a short and sweet formula: In order for a couple to do the deed, we-the devoted audience-had to believe their relationship was based on love (or something like it) following a multi-episode romantic arc. In particular, the notion of a female character losing her virginity, and to whom, has historically provided great narrative mileage, from Donna Martin in Beverly Hills 90210 to Blair Waldorf in the original Gossip Girl. Teen and young-adult television has had a preoccupation with sex for as long as the genre has existed. In it, we got to see what sex with the bad boy actually looked like after being merely titillated with the archetype by our favorite teen dramas for so long.
” This infamous episode aired 20 years ago today, during Buffy’s sixth and most divisive season. No episode captured the potency of this trifecta more than “ Smashed. It was about the kind of anxious, teenaged naivety that made me a little bit scared of Buffy because of its proximity to violence, death, and sex. I was in high school for the majority of its original run-from 1997 to 2003-and would tell myself the show wasn’t for me because the girl my 9th grade boyfriend had not-so-secretly hooked up with adored it (she even wore a replica of Buffy’s crucifix necklace to class.) Looking back, I realize that it wasn’t about my heartbroken vitriol at all. I’ll admit it: I didn’t watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer until I was in my twenties.
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