I love discussing the seuxality of the characters and find it to be one of the greatest and most important aspects of Skins. It's so much more progressive than any other teen (or even adult) shows on television, that usually have a black/white prespective on sexuality, even when they're open to LG storylines (GG, Glee [ugh], PLL, etc). The characters on Skins are rarely identify as exclusive to one gender. The attraction has always been about the person and not the gender (bar Maxxie). This series of Skins has played with that more than any other and I hope they will continue to do that and I'll be really impressed if they manage to get off without putting a label on a single character this Gen.
I'm late on this but, I actually think The OC handled Marissa's sexuality pretty well without categorizing her. Very surprising for an American TV show.
I love discussing the seuxality of the characters and find it to be one of the greatest and most important aspects of Skins. It's so much more progressive than any other teen (or even adult) shows on television, that usually have a black/white prespective on sexuality, even when they're open to LG storylines (GG, Glee [ugh], PLL, etc). The characters on Skins are rarely identify as exclusive to one gender. The attraction has always been about the person and not the gender (bar Maxxie). This series of Skins has played with that more than any other and I hope they will continue to do that and I'll be really impressed if they manage to get off without putting a label on a single character this Gen.
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