Despertar tardio: A virgindade em idade adulta no cinema norte-americano

Abstract

This work explores how North American cinema portrays adult age or “late” virginity, and what this says about North American culture and society themselves. For this, a bibliographical study was made based on books, dissertations and articles that approach the theme, with prominence to those of six authors: Deleyto (2010), Kelly (2016), McDonald (2010), Pennington (2007), Taylor (1978) e Weinmann (2016). It is concluded that the representation of adult virginity in North American cinema is intrinsically linked to the representations of abstinence and sexual liberation, and, therefore, changes as the North American society goes through more and less conservative periods, always, however, sustaining an agenda that sooner or later it has to be lost.