Tampabay.com
JULY 06, 2008

The international language of virginity

Virgin2 We now break away from my Sylvester Stallone movie marathon (just another excuse for me to watch "Victory") for this informative letter sent by uber-fan Don:

"Hey Steve, I've been listening to the podcast for a few months and after listening to a few of the older shows I decided to go back and start at the beginning. I had been doing this and it was time to go on vacation. My wife is from Peru and had not been back there since she came to America 6 years ago. We decided to go so that her family could see her and our son who was 13 months old at the time."

"A few days before we came back we were watching some television as she and our son were going to sleep. I flipped through the channels and came upon the movie 'The Last American Virgin.' It was showing the scene right before Rick breaks up with Karen. At that moment deep inside I knew I had to watch the rest of the movie just for the ending."

"At this point the movie had changed from being a 80s teen sex comedy into an 80s teen movie that dealt with serious issues. Keep in mind I had not seen the movie in some time but for some reason I invented in my mind that the song playing while Gary drove away with his heart completely and totally ripped from his chest was a slow Journey song. I was sure of this. Instead of course it is James Ingram as we all now know."

"As a side note for you guys, a lot of channels in Peru play American movies in English and they are unedited for content. This movie was no exception. I spoke with my brother-in-law about it and he said that in Peru it wasn't considered a big deal to show nudity or have cursing on television. I didn't even have the words to try to explain how there is an entire industry dedicated to preventing these things in America. Man, we are so repressed here."

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Relive the '80s music, movies and culture with Tampa Bay Times entertainment news editor Steve Spears. A teen during the greatest decade ever, Steve is obsessed with everything from Duran Duran to Journey, John Hughes to John Cusack, and parachute pants to Reaganomics.

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