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It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl, is determined to lose her virginity. Over the course of a year, the story unrolls in five chapters. Pamela encounters various dick-owning teenagers--a skateboarder, a theater usher, a sensitive boy, and a boy who describes himself as a straight edge--and has multiple close encounters with sex. And all the while, there's the presence of her best friend, a boy named Sam.
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It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Shouldn't Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl, is determined to lose her virginity. Over the course of a year, the story unrolls in five chapters. Pamela encounters various dick-owning teenagers--a skateboarder, a theater usher, a sensitive boy, and a boy who describes himself as a straight edge--and has multiple close encounters with sex. And all the while, there's the presence of her best friend, a boy named Sam.
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** Pam goes to a second, wilder teen party later, and is startled to see some boys snorting cocaine off of a coffee table.
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** Pam goes to a second, wilder teen party later, and is startled to see some boys snorting cocaine off of a coffee table.table.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Discussed; Pamela's father tells her that women don't enjoy penetration so there's really no need for her to actually have sex.
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Pamela's father tells her that women don't enjoy penetration so there's really no need for her to actually have sex.
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''My Year of Dicks'' is a 2022 short film (24 minutes) directed by Sara Gunnarsdottir.
It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl, is a virgin, and she is determined to lose her virginity. Over the course of a year, the story unrolls in five chapters. Pamela encounters various dick-owning teenagers--a skateboarder, a theater usher, a sensitive boy, and a boy who describes himself as a straight edge--and has multiple close encounters with sex. And all the while, there's the presence of her best friend, a boy named Sam.
It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl, is a virgin, and she is determined to lose her virginity. Over the course of a year, the story unrolls in five chapters. Pamela encounters various dick-owning teenagers--a skateboarder, a theater usher, a sensitive boy, and a boy who describes himself as a straight edge--and has multiple close encounters with sex. And all the while, there's the presence of her best friend, a boy named Sam.
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''My Year of Dicks'' is a 2022 short film (24 minutes) directed by Sara Gunnarsdottir.
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It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl,is a virgin, and she is determined to lose her virginity. Over the course of a year, the story unrolls in five chapters. Pamela encounters various dick-owning teenagers--a skateboarder, a theater usher, a sensitive boy, and a boy who describes himself as a straight edge--and has multiple close encounters with sex. And all the while, there's the presence of her best friend, a boy named Sam.
It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl,
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Pamela's father tells her that women don't enjoy penetration so there's really no need for her to actually have sex.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Sam gets naked to tell Pam that the boys she's been chasing aren't good enough for her. She starts putting clothes on him, then they get all giggly and she puts more clothes on him, and it's only when he is invisible under a pile of clothes that he has the nerve to say "I love you."
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* NudityEqualsHonesty: Sam chooses to take all his clothes off before telling Pam how he cares about her and all the boys she's been hanging out with aren't good enough for her.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: The film cuts to the end credits as Pam crawls under a pile of clothes with Sam and, apparently, finally loses her virginity.
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* TheTalk: A deeply horrifying one in which Pam's father says that women don't enjoy sex, that a penis really doesn't care ''how'' it gets off, and that Pam should stick to oral sex for now. Pam's body morphs and distorts in a DerangedAnimation kind of way to symbolize her extreme embarrassment and discomfort.
* ThousandYardStare: Pam in the car with her mom, after her father gives her a deeply awkward and embarrassing sex talk.
* VisualInnuendo: It's a pretty good sign that Pamela is going to finally lose her virginity when the fifth and last chapter is introduced with animation of bees and hummingbirds probing flowers.
* ThousandYardStare: Pam in the car with her mom, after her father gives her a deeply awkward and embarrassing sex talk.
* VisualInnuendo: It's a pretty good sign that Pamela is going to finally lose her virginity when the fifth and last chapter is introduced with animation of bees and hummingbirds probing flowers.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: A less common female version of this trope, as a horny teenaged girl decides she doesn't want to be a virgin anymore and looks for a suitable boy to deflower her.
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* CreepyCrows: A chapter titled "The Horror Show" and featuring a lot of horror-style animation has the sound of crows cawing outside in the first scene.
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* DramaticIrony: Pamela reaches for Robert's crotch a couple of times, only for him to move her hand away. Her InnerMonologue says "I love how you let me control the pace, the urgency." This is immediately followed by Robert, who turns out to be gay, putting his hand on Sam's knee.
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* GilliganCut: Pamela's friend calls, trying to get her to go to a WildTeenParty. A reluctant Pam says "I am not--" and the scene cuts to her sneaking out a window to go to the party.
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* MatchCut: After Robert puts his hand on Sam's knee, Sam directs Robert's hand back to Pamela. Cut to Sam patting Pamela's shoulder as she cries about finding out Robert isn't interested.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: The third chapter has Pamela going to a fair with Sam and "The Sweet One", a boy named Robert. She kisses him on a Ferris wheel--and Robert puts his hand on Sam's knee. Cut to Pamela crying after Robert has given her the "better as friends" talk.
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* ArtShift: Different chapters are done in different animation styles. Chapter 3, "The Sweet One", has a lot of anime-style animation. Chapter 4, "The Horror Show", has scenes drawn like a horror cartoon.
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* FlippingTheBird: Pam's ex-boyfriend Clinton flips her the bird at a party.
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* FlippingTheBird: EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Watching ''Film/HenryAndJune'' gets Pamela trying out her high school French and imagining a French boyfriend murmuring to her romantically.
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** Pam's ex-boyfriend Clinton flips her the bird at aparty.party.
** Pam's unfortunate encounter with the theater usher (he tries to pressure her into a BJ and then into sex in a dirty storage closet) ends with her flipping him off as she leaves.
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** Pam's ex-boyfriend Clinton flips her the bird at a
** Pam's unfortunate encounter with the theater usher (he tries to pressure her into a BJ and then into sex in a dirty storage closet) ends with her flipping him off as she leaves.
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* PottyMouth: Pam's little sister is only shown in one scene, and has only one line.
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* PottyMouth: PrecisionFStrike: Pamela finds out that her first potential boyfriend, David, won a bet for the oddly specific sum of $2.58 by making out with her. She throws $5.16 at him and says "I'm worth double, bitch."
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** Pamela gets turned on watching one of the first NC-17 movies ever made, the EroticFilm ''Film/HenryAndJune''.
** She also gets turned on when she goes to the movies and watches ''Film/TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover''.
* SirSwearsALot: Pam's little sister is only shown in one scene, and has only one line.
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** Pamela gets turned on watching one of the first NC-17 movies ever made, the EroticFilm ''Film/HenryAndJune''.
** She also gets turned on when she goes to the movies and watches ''Film/TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover''.
* SirSwearsALot: Pam's little sister is only shown in one scene, and has only one line.
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* DerangedAnimation: The animation is wildly unpredictable throughout, like when Pam's first potential boyfriend "the vampire" sprouts fangs, or when a wolf leaps out of Clinton's mouth to represent his jealousy.
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* SwingLowSweetHarriet: Pamela briefly imagines herself in a Victorian frilly dress, swinging on a swing, as she attracts the jealousy of her ex0boyfriend Clinton.
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* SwingLowSweetHarriet: Pamela briefly imagines herself in a Victorian frilly dress, swinging on a swing, as she attracts the jealousy of her ex0boyfriend Clinton.ex-boyfriend Clinton.
* WildTeenParty
** Pam's first potential boyfriend takes advantage of her admission that her parents are out of town by bringing a bunch of other teenagers over to her house for a party.
** Pam goes to a second, wilder teen party later, and is startled to see some boys snorting cocaine off of a coffee table.
* WildTeenParty
** Pam's first potential boyfriend takes advantage of her admission that her parents are out of town by bringing a bunch of other teenagers over to her house for a party.
** Pam goes to a second, wilder teen party later, and is startled to see some boys snorting cocaine off of a coffee table.
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''My Year of Dicks'' is a 2022 short film (24 minutes) directed by Sara Gunnarsdottir.
It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl, is a virgin, and she is determined to lose her virginity. Over the course of a year, the story unrolls in five chapters. Pamela encounters various dick-owning teenagers--a skateboarder, a theater usher, a sensitive boy, and a boy who describes himself as a straight edge--and has multiple close encounters with sex. And all the while, there's the presence of her best friend, a boy named Sam.
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* BlandNameProduct: Houston has a fast food chain called "Taco Head".
* FlippingTheBird: Pam's ex-boyfriend Clinton flips her the bird at a party.
* MediumBlending: Each chapters is introduced with a live-action video clip of the real Pam Ribon from 1991.
* PottyMouth: Pam's little sister is only shown in one scene, and has only one line.
-->"Shit, that was some easy fuckin' money."
* SwingLowSweetHarriet: Pamela briefly imagines herself in a Victorian frilly dress, swinging on a swing, as she attracts the jealousy of her ex0boyfriend Clinton.
It is based on Pamela Ribon's memoir ''Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public)''. The story finds Pamela in Houston, Texas in 1991. Pamela, a 15-year-old girl, is a virgin, and she is determined to lose her virginity. Over the course of a year, the story unrolls in five chapters. Pamela encounters various dick-owning teenagers--a skateboarder, a theater usher, a sensitive boy, and a boy who describes himself as a straight edge--and has multiple close encounters with sex. And all the while, there's the presence of her best friend, a boy named Sam.
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!!Tropes:
* BlandNameProduct: Houston has a fast food chain called "Taco Head".
* FlippingTheBird: Pam's ex-boyfriend Clinton flips her the bird at a party.
* MediumBlending: Each chapters is introduced with a live-action video clip of the real Pam Ribon from 1991.
* PottyMouth: Pam's little sister is only shown in one scene, and has only one line.
-->"Shit, that was some easy fuckin' money."
* SwingLowSweetHarriet: Pamela briefly imagines herself in a Victorian frilly dress, swinging on a swing, as she attracts the jealousy of her ex0boyfriend Clinton.
