The Woodhall School is for adolescent males, so the issue of masculine sexual identity is very present and very real. Young men are coming of age before our very eyes. Statistics tell us that by age sixteen, you have probably seen 200,000 acts of violence on television. Comic books today offer you sadism and sex. A stripper was crucified in an issue of Green Arrow.
Video stores rent slasher films that feature graphic and erotic scenes of female mutilation.
Statistics indicate rentals are booming among 11 to 15 year old males. In some fraternity houses on college campuses, slasher movies play continuously in the lounges. Date rape is one of the most common adolescent sexual crimes. One out of four high school student relationships is suspected of involving physical abuse. The pressures to speak and act violently are everywhere.