"I began to associate my own personal power with giving a man pleasure. What do the girls get out of it sexually?Ī: I think Heather, 16, explains it best. Q: A lot has been written about rainbow oral sex parties. We are way past that point with blowjobs. Think back to the '80s when girls would blush when talking about their first kiss. The reason they speak about it unflinchingly is because it has become as benign and as acceptable as kissing. The girls were okay talking about giving oral sex to a number of boys – they didn't stumble with the words or appear shy or ashamed. is for the mothers to finally take responsibility for what has happened to their daughters. There is no social group for a mother whose teenage daughter is having sex with five men a night. How?Ī: Getting the releases was not difficult because the parents wanted to talk about this. Q: You were able to get parental permission to film the girls who were under age. That was the beginning of my research into teenage recruiters and the middle-class girls they target. I asked the teacher about her and was told that she had been recruited by a girl at school and trafficked to a small town where she was kept in a motel. In that class, I met a lovely blond girl with perfect makeup and a Louis Vuitton bag who seemed completely out of place.
The Flex kids have been out of school for various problems. Q: What sparked this documentary and book?Ī: I was at a high school in Burnaby, B.C., researching sexual attitudes for a film I was working on when I was asked to talk to the students in the Flex Program. Parents, she says, were not paying close enough attention to their daughters.Īzam is married, with a 3-year-old daughter, and splits her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver. This includes a prostitution ring at an Edmonton high school. Worlds away from the poverty, neglect and drug abuse that are the hallmarks of prostitution, teenagers who appear bright and well- adjusted are prostituting themselves without batting an eyelash.Īccording to independent filmmaker Sharlene Azam's documentary and book, Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss, the normalization of oral sex as an acceptable teenage activity has led vulnerable girls to use it as a way of becoming socially accepted.įor some in Azam's film, this ultimately leads to payment for sex because, after all, if they are doing it anyway, why not get paid for it?Īzam, 38, a former columnist for the Toronto Star, interviewed Canadian girls (and their parents) who had been discovered by school officials to be involved in sexual activity with groups of boys, as well as girls charged by police. Middle-class Canadian girls are giving oral sex after school to pay for sweaters and handbags.