The era of pubescence is one that ev-\nery person has to face when transition-\ning from childhood to adolescence.\nAlso known as the most awkward\nstage of life, puberty is an unguided\nexperience that we navigate through\nfor a few years.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Puberty is a natural experience that\neveryone trudges through; however,\nthere is very little representation of\nteens going through puberty on any\nmedia.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While there have been TV shows that\ncapture the lives of teens growing up,\nonly recently have there been shows\nsolely about the experience of puber-\nty. Such shows include Puberty Blues\n<\/em>(2012-14), Newton Puberty <\/em>(2015-pres-\nent) and Sex Education <\/em>(2019-present),\nand the animated series Big Mouth\n<\/em>(2017-present).\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Big Mouth <\/em>was is a Netflix original\nseries that premiered on Sept. 29, 2017,\nwith the pilot episode \u201cEjaculation.\u201d\nBig Mouth <\/em>was created by Nick Kroll,\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin and\nJennifer Flackett. This animated series\nis based on the lives of young teenag-\ner Nick Kroll (voiced by himself) and\nAndrew Goldberg (voiced by John\nMulaney).\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Big Mouth<\/em>, Andrew, Nick and\ntheir friends go on the roller coaster\nride that is puberty. The show does not\nuse any censorship to cover up the raw\nreality of puberty.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every aspect of puberty from acne to\nmenstrual cycles to pubic hair to sexu-\nal desires is completely exposed for the\naudience to see.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Andrew, Nick and their friends\nstumble their way through pubes-\ncence, they\u2019re guided by Maurice\n\u201cMaury\u201d the Hormone Monster. Mau-\nry is an invisible monster that causes\nthe effects of puberty to kick in. He\nintroduces Andrew (who hits puberty\nfirst before Nick) and sometimes Nick\nto various sexual desires such as mas-\nturbation, porn and physical desires\nwith girls.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maury also has a counterpart named Connie who is a hormone monster for girls. Connie introduces Andrew and <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nick\u2019s friend Jessie and Missy to the wonders of the menstrual cycle, random mood swings and anger spells, and the discovery of sexual desires as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With season one and two ready to\nbinge on Netflix, season three will be\nreleased on Oct. 4.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n After season two, the show left off\nwith a Valentine\u2019s Day special which\nGoldberg says will follow the story\nplot and is the beginning of season\nthree.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The era of pubescence is one that ev- ery person has to face when transition- ing from childhood to adolescence. Also known as the most… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[150],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":150,"user_id":20,"is_guest":0,"slug":"staff-reports","display_name":"Staff Reports","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/0437b672851a8a9f7b27b17b33805122.jpg?ver=1778634720","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}