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The Most Memorable Sex Scenes in Film
By Marc Savlov, Fri., Aug. 11, 2000
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
"... the coitus here is nothing short of depressing, just as it so often is in first-timer reality."Amy Heckerling hasn't done jack for me lately, but in the summer of 1982 her dead-on examination of teen libidinal meltdowns scored in more ways than one. Check it: Not only do we get the painfully honest deflowering of Jennifer Jason Leigh's desperate-to-be-loved proto-virgin Stacy by ticket-scalping weaselboy Mike Damone (Robert Romanus), but we're also treated to Stacy's ginchy older brother Brad (Judge Reinhold) guiding the salmon upstream while mentally disrobing teen-queen Phoebe Cates (who -- haw! -- promptly walks in on him). Heckerling's genius lies in her refusal to bow to the Hollywood teen-sex norm -- the coitus here is nothing short of depressing, just as it so often is in first-timer reality. Leigh and Romanus' frenzied fumbling lasts all of 20 seconds before the flustered duo unsatisfactorily uncouple and part ways, with predictably awful results. I don't know about you, but this was enough to backseat my emerging libido for a good two summers.