Last week I explored how emotionally and physically painful losing one’s virginity is for the ladies. The women discussed all held on to their v-cards like prized pies at a county fair, and when they gave it up disaster often struck. Be it mass suicide, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, or (worse yet) feelings, each movie addressed this entirely relatable coming-of-age experience. While many of us look back at our first time through rose-colored glasses, it was watching movies growing up that helped us come to terms with what happens to our bodies, feelings, and sexual futures. Thank god, for every female virginity tale, there are female sex positive films, family friendly fantasies, and Golden Years send-offs. But what about the boys? Unlike women centric virginity films, the boy’s story is often considered awkward, comical, and down-right head slap inducing. Why are boys never given as much respect in sexual awakening stories as the girls, who consequentially are considered fragile glass eggs. I could sit here and list off all the hilarious comedies where a terribly geeky boy not only kisses but fucks the girl of his dream, but I think there is something deeper to explore in these movies.  Losing our virginity is a push into adulthood, an emotional journey for some and anticlimactic for others. But no matter what sex for the first time only makes us want it more.

Sex is wonderful just as much as it is awkward. You can have a great night with both parties working together to make a cohesive, delicious moment. Skin sweat-slicked, passions flaring, limbs wrapped around each other until you feel so sated you just fall back as one exhausted and conjoined mass. On the other hand, body parts could just not fit right with each other, the participants flailing around like pool noodles unaware of their own surroundings. The couple trying so hard or not trying at all, whatever the case may be–too much pressure to perform or not enough emotion to care about the person under or over them. But what about the first time awkwardness? Think back; yes all the way back, to your first time. Maybe you were lucky enough to lose it to someone you loved, or maybe it was just with some person from the bar following a handful too many Lone Stars. Someone just as inexperienced as you or someone full of such prowess it was hard not to be caught up and bowled over by the moment. Sex as a virgin can seem terrifying, empowering, freeing, wrong, and myriad other conflicting emotions. And coming of age films have been banking on this range of feelings and experiences since the dawning of the medium.

It’s time for girls to trade in their tube-tops for textbooks and guys to put down the dumbbells in exchange for a mental workout. Here’s 10 reasons to get your ass back in class, brought to you by some of the best films about school… and the letters FS and R.