A Beginner’s Guide to the Psychosexual
There’s a lot of conversations circulating about sex in the media today. Today’s target audience of Gen Z are ranking higher on the puritanical scale, which has sparked discussion of a generational moral panic amongst young people. While the media can be a looking glass to the anxieties of society, audience reception also says a thing or two on shared ideologies amongst said society.
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