Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence (1953)

Synopsis: From the Adolescent Development series of educational films, this short offer a look at the sexual development of a girl and a boy growing up in two different households.

Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): The boy is named Bob and his mother, a widow, is open and honest with Bob about the subject of sex, answering his questions and using certain situations to explain the nature of the birds and the bees. She is seen with Bob looking at a mama tuxedo cat and her kittens in a box.

Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence - boy Bob and mother looking at box with mother tuxedo cat and kittens
Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence - mother tuxedo cat and kittens in box

The narrator (Lorne Greene) explains how Bob’s mother arranged such situations to breach the subject of sex.

Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence - mother tuxedo cat and kittens in box
Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence - boy Bob poking at tuxedo kittens in box

Final Mewsings: Did Bob’s mother let Bob watch the kittens being conceived as well?

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