DISCLAIMER -- This episode deals with discussions of growing up in mental illness. Please feel free to skip it if it's too much, too close to home, or just too heavy for the already heavy burden of a holiday season.
This episode delves into movies about sex. The 90s were really big into telling stories about sex that stood in stark contrast to those about love. There are men you fall in love with and men you have great sex with. Those were not the same man. Nor could they be. 
Academics have spent lifetimes deconstructing the dichotomy of the "virgin/whore" concept that constrain women, but few have investigated the same damage that stasis has waged against men in the stories we tell. This is my attempt to look at the ways in which men have been divided and thus disconnected from themselves through messages and codes in mass media about sex and love. 
I focus specifically on the films of Adrian Lyne and support my findings with critical analysis from Bell Hooks', The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.

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