Monique Bowley
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Not easy to get a finger in between all of those petticoats.
I also think in a way, as you said, Mira, about how it makes them a little bit safer.
This isn't the case for like Baby Girl, which obviously had a lot of other sex going on.
There's a little bit of plausible deniability.
Like if you were watching Bridgerton.
Like you either know what's going on in that scene or you don't.
It's a little bit sort of safer.
But I think the female gaze on these screenplays is definitely a big part of it.
I mean, not necessarily literally but culturally of you're at school.
You're a teenager and you're not allowed to go all the way.
You're not allowed to have your clothes off.
So it's all like furtive and frottage.
We used to call it frottage when I was a teenager.