A few hundred years after the first sex comedy was staged in the UK, Sex Education signals the influences that conditioned its British quirks.
. It’s a peppy teen comedy catering to Netflix’s young demographic; it features warm, heartfelt, positive queer representation; it’s packed with likable, hilarious rising stars and newcomers; it boasts an eccentric, silly sense of humor; it vigorously engages with the online generation’s widespread exposure to all things sexual despite sex ed being uniformly piss poor. Oh, and it is also British, crucial to making a buzzy online hit.
But in an age where all media, comedic and sexual, is instantly available, how do the charms of a sex comedy work?achieves this by showing that, yes, sex is an option all the time to everyone, but teenagers still have zero idea what to do when the opportunity arises. The comedy lies not in being denied sex, but in the lack of “education” around it.
While the most sexually explicit plays were written by men, the Restoration period allowed women to earn a living writing plays for the first time in England. Aphra Behn’s work focused, like, on social inequalities between the sexes, and her and other female playwrights bore the brunt of dismissive criticism against the Restoration comedies. Soon, the Restoration era gave way to serious moral plays, and the sex comedy was reduced in the public eye.
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