The Prom Story We've Come to Know

The idea of losing your virginity at prom was so ingrained into my adolescent life that one, 16-year-old me felt like a complete freak for being utterly emotionally unprepared to have sex. Prom has also always been about teaching young people what adulthood ought to look like. Even the wondrously transgressive 2017 prom movie Blockers begins with three girls pledging to lose their virginity on prom night. Despite being a kind of anti-prom, prom movie, Blockers still tells the prom story we've come to know.