Sluts, slutty slut-like sluts. Here, we’re talking about Gwen. You see, Gwen just doesn’t know how to say no. In fact, “Can she ever say no?” See those oh so coy eyes? Perhaps you think, oh that’s just an innocent YA novel from the 1980s you’re twisting nastily into a particularly single entendre. Oh, I know what would convince you—irresponsibly edited back blurbs!
“Gwen has time for everyone...she says yes to Susan…YES to any friend who needs “help”…even a yes to nice but boring Mitch. When he asks her out, Gwen says yes…with delight (That last one is actually just how the sentence appears anyway, as if I was into copywriting in the 80s). Gwen likes him, a lot! Gwen says yes…with delight. But she still is saying yes to Mitch, too (okay, again that’s how it appears on the book. Perhaps the perceived/humorous subtext isn’t so much sub as dom?). Phil soon becomes tired of being Gwen’s second choice, and tells her so angrily. If she can’t stop saying yes…”
Does that not sound like the description to a Swedish sex “documentary” from the 60s? An absolutely favorite part is the last line of the book. “Just one thing did occur to me as we kissed: I may have learned to say no, but where Phil Passos was concerned, the word “yes” was still a very important part of my vocabulary.”
Apparently a television show from a couple years ago was based upon this series; however, as the airing took place on something called ABC Family, I was oblivious. Most likely this channel's existence was allowed only to those who had passed within a church in recent memory…like a passkey or a card with a code…something like that.
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