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Now that the Sex and the City world premieres are wrapping up, it’s almost time for the big New York City premiere. Which means that SATC mania is heating up again, thus it’s time to take a look back on the last ten years and see what kind of terrible behavior wanton females have engaged in as a result of the show.
A Utah woman has claimed to ABC News that Sex and the City turned her into a big ‘ol skank. As a 14-year-old, Long Island native “Lisa” – not her real name – started giving it up to every guy on the street – all as a result of idolizing Kim Cattral’s character, Samantha.
She got hooked on “Sex and the City” when she was a 14-year-old growing up on Long Island, N.Y. It was the same year she lost her virginity. She soon graduated to ordering cosmopolitans at bars she snuck into and cheating on her boyfriend with up to seven other guys — in one week.
“When you’re that age you try to emulate people on TV. Carrie smoked, so I smoked, Samantha looked at hooking up with random people as not a big deal, so that’s what I did too,” said Lisa, now 22. “It wasn’t ‘Sex and the City’s’ fault. I love the show, but I think it made it a little easier to justify my behavior.”
It’s a twisted version of monkey see, monkey do. For some 20-something women, “Sex and the City,” which hits theaters in feature film form May 30, served as Dating 101 — lessons in how to hook up, go out and live the fabulous lives of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), no strings attached.
Lisa remembers re-enacting one particular Samantha scene in her own life: Season 3, episode 39, in which the bachelorette-for-life scrunches her face up at her latest suitor and tells him she doesn’t like the way he … tastes. “That was something that happened to me. I used her exact words: ‘You have funky spunk,’” she said. “I knew from watching the show that it had to do with something he was eating,” so she took a cue from the script and took an ax to a certain item in his diet.
[From ABC News]
I think most women have re-enacted that scene. My ex-boyfriend and I have what we referred to as the “fish taco incident.” Sex and the City just gave us the language to talk about it, and know that it’s not uncommon. And also a few techniques for dealing with the problem.
Apparently “Lisa” ended up pretty scarred – she moved to Utah and converted to Mormonism. Her husband made her sell her SATC DVD collection, and wouldn’t let her watch on television for the first year of their marriage, for fear that she’d turn back into a skankatron. He’s since relaxed a little and Lisa now has her DVDs back. But she says she wouldn’t want her 14-year-old sister watching the show.
I would agree that 14 might be a little young, certainly for the un-edited HBO version. But something tells me that if Lisa if slept with 7 guys in 7 days, she would have done that with or without Samantha’s encouragement. But if an unusually high amount of babies are born to unwed teenage mothers who don’t know who the father is approximately 9 months from May 27th, I guess we’ll know who to blame.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Movies, Photos, Sex, Sex and the City
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46 Responses to “Woman claims “Sex & the City” turned her into a 14-year-old slut”
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Seriously….?
She thinks that because it is on TV its justified her actions? And I suppose all the horror movies merit the fact that there *really are* boogiemen out there…or hanibal lecture justifies the canibals out there?!
Come on now, you just wanted to whore around for your own personal reasons whatever they were, and blame it on a show so that no one looks at you for what you are. Now you have put yourself in a position to be controlled so that you don’t revert back to your old ways…
boo on her for blaming a great show….that isn’t always the best role model. But most of us got that memo…
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She needs to just take responsibility for her actions, the world would be a much more enjoyable place if we’d all stop blaming others for our problems.
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Why didn’t the show turn her into a lawyer like Cynthia Nixon’s character? I mean seriously… get a grip! You are so right about taking responsibility for her own actions. Where were her parents too?
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Actually, it sounds like she has a fairly accurate view of her own responsibility–she explicitly says it wasn’t the show’s fault. True, parents can’t be around every minute, but she shouldn’t have been watching this show to begin with. Someone should have been paying more attention to what she was doing, and providing better guidance.
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I agree with Sarah-how could her parents let her watch that at 14??
That’s like my 5yr old daughter blaming Tom & Jerry for hitting her brother with a frying pan. Get a life….and another hobby for that matter! Put the d#%k down! -
So if I kill someone or become a vigilante I can blame USA/TNT for having syndicated Law & Order on 24/7? Nice. Maybe I can emulate robin Williams on SVU and be my own lawyer too!
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The headline for the story originally should have been ‘Dumb Ass Girl’s Parents Too Busy to Supervise Her Slip to Slutdom’ but that wouldn’t have sold as well as tying it into an iconic show and upcoming movie.
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Uh huh and Saved by the Bell is responsible for my addiction to caffeine pills.
Some idiots shouldn’t reproduce.
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Um, I watched a lot of horror movies as a kid, but I know killing people with chainsaws is a bad idea. I also watched a lot of SaTC as a teenager, and it did not turn me into a “skankatron” (awesome, BTW). Can you guess why? Because I knew right from wrong! I also knew having lots of sex with random people was a BAD IDEA, even when I was 14! Jeez, woman!
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Enough of excuses. Take responsibility for your own actions.
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Yep. Too many parents out there letting the TV, schools, and government raise their kids instead of doing it themselves.
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If people took responsibility for their actions, we wouldn’t need Democrats!!
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She forget to mention the sexual molestation she experienced prior to tuning in to SATC. NOBODY engages in extreme adult sexual activities straight out of virginity just because they see them on a television program. This seeping gash is looking for press before she joins the coins-and-a-tablet-in-a-hat cult known as Mormonism. I’ll bet you a million blowjobs she fu¢ks every elder in the Church.
What an asshat, and no, katenonymous, she’s not taking any responsibility for her actions. -
That is one crappity-crap show. I can’t believe it’s still popular. Makes women look HORRIBLE.
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there was an episode of SATC where some 14 year old girls were whoring around and samantha told them they were too young to be having sex and acting like adults. so why didn’t this chick take that episode to heart? because it’s easier to blame others for our bad behavior than to own it. dumbass.
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What are you lot on about?
I watched Dallas since I was 8 and I’ve been Miss Texas, married to a nefarious oil baron, a lush, had an unfortunate affair with Ken Kercheval and my lips keep moving for 10 seconds after I stop speaking
You mean…. Sue Ellen WASN’T to blame??!?!
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LOL Mairead! Think that sums it up nicely!
…whatever next, I totally agree, take responsibility for your own actions.
How much of a unimaginative brain dead sheep must you be to do something just because a fictional tv character is doing it…wtf!!
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The only thing SaTC is guilty of is making a whole bunch of people sterile by showing those hags on television. Visual birth control to the nth degree!
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You can defend the media all you want people, but I work with teenagers and can definitely say that they are affected by what they see and hear. They definitely mimic (consciously and unconsciously) hair and clothing styles, mannerisms, speech patterns, and moral codes that they are exposed to in the media, if they are “cool”. This girl did not blame the show, but makes the valid assessment that it made her behaviour way easier to justify. The show absolutely normalized random sluttiness. I think the pendulum may have swung too far to the left with the stuff being shown on T.V. and presented in other media. If there is no going back with regards to media codes and censorship (and really, do I need to watch some chick give a guy a blow job at 8:30pm on network television?), then parents need to take more control over what their kids are exposed to.
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The interesting thing about Sex in the City is that during the first two years the scripts were written primarily by gay men. Hence, much of what we watched was a gay man’s perception of how single women lived their lives. As the later years were produced several female writers were added to the staff and the general direction of the show became more focused on relationships and family. The show has to be taken with a grain of salt. Much of it was made up by men who had no idea how straight, single females live. Adults who let their life or lifestyle be taken over by a pretend television show need to have their heads examined. As for children, they had no business watching that show. Wonder if the former 14 year old realizes now that she based her behavior on a gay man’s perspective of a single woman’s life?
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By the way, the clock on this site is waaaaaay off. I wrote my last message at 10:30 p.m. Central Time, but the post says 3:30 a.m. Not quite. Needs to be fixed.
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I’m sorry to see such misogynist labels being applied to “Lisa.” That’s uglier than anything I see in her original comments, IMO.
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Yeah. Just because she cheated on her boyfriend with 7 different guys each week, and then went to ABC News to brag about it doesn’t give you the right to call her a slut.
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Lamest exuse I ever heard.
Over here in Europe they broadcast the re-runs at 8pm. Lots of teens watch it.
When they were 6 they knew they should not jump of a 5-storey building just because the six million dollar man did it too. And by the time they are teens they know … Oh well. -
“Hmm” you of course do have a valid point that seeing it on tv can subconsciously encourage teenagers to see it as cool or rebellious and therefore the thing to do.
But again, it’s down to knowing right from wrong. As I said, I was watching Dallas at 8, and cigarette advertising was way more prevalent back then - and I’m no slapper and am rabidly anti-smoking. It will affect some more than others.
Hi Ceejay - I think the time looks odd to you as it’s set at Greenwich Mean Time. The one good reason for her not to set the clock to central American time is that she, and possibly the hosting server, is based in Europe, one hour ahead of GMT. One of the contributors (Helen) is also an Aussie.
So by keeping it to GMT it’s consistent with a global audience
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You’re all so GORGEOUSLY chatty!!! I love it. It’s like sitting around and watching the tv with y’all…something I haven’t done in a long time.
Well, I know one mother of 16 yr old twin girls who lived in an Indian village (they’re from South America though) and her daughters watched SATC. I was pretty disgusted at the content: one image of Samantha walking in on her new lover who was going down on a spreadeagled brunette didn’t seem like “family viewing” to me. But more alarming was the mother’s response when I asked her if her daughters (both quite innocent virgins) should be watching such stuff, and she replied, “I want them to see what the real world is like.”
Honey, there ain’t NOTHIN’ real about SATC except the cost of Manolo’s….so there you have a totally unrealistic image in the head of a young girl. And that ain’t gonna influence her??? Pleaaaaase….
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And here I thought there was nothing redeeming about that show. I stand corrected.
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She would have done all those things Anyway, stop blameing the show. A skank is a skank, your not the first or the last to grow up like a whore.
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Wait a sec, this girl was only 14 when she started emulating fictional women in their 30s who were more than twice her age.
Yes, she needs to take responsibility for her behavior, but she was in many respects still a child–under age and not mature enough to handle sexual freedom.
That’s why we have age-appropriate ratings for movies and laws against seducing minors! This was adult content being watched by a child. Where were her parents?
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I have to confess, SATC influenced my behavior also. I tried Cosmopolitans and liked them a lot, but after one I was dizzy. Two and I would’ve passed out.
I tried on very high heels but unfortunately couldn’t even balance standing up, let alone walking.
I briefly considered spending $40,000 on shoes, but paid off my home mortgage instead. (Sorry, Carrie)
One did I did do was buy some designer label clothes and experiment with more daring outfits. That was fun.
The rest of it, I leave to the wonderful SATC girls! It’s a fantasy life and I love watching.
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“When you’re that age you try to emulate people on TV”
Yes…. if your an idiot!!!
Does she honestly want us to believe that at 14 years old she isnt intelligent enough to realise emulating someone on TV by having lots of casual sex isnt bad?
I think that just speaks buckets loads for american education!
Whats more likely?
1) She got drunk and proberbly lost her virginity at a party at 14, and realised sex feels good and being 14 and having no self control wanted more.
2) Watched a TV programme and then decided (based on that show) to then loose her V and run around acting like a skank!
Hmmmmm…… either one is moronic, but the first one is a lot more believable!
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a 14 yo should not be watching this show. that’s what Hannah Montana is for. Sex and the City was most certainly an adult show dealing with adult situations. are we only supposed to have shows…..on a paid channel no less……that are similar to Leave it to Beaver? so that adults have no entertainment appropriate to life?
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Watching Battlestar Galactica made me a Cylon.
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How incredibly ludicrous. Grow up and realize that it wasn’t the shows fault that turned you into a skank, it was your own damn fault. You were in control of keeping your legs closed not a fictional television show. I can’t say that I was perfect growing up either but at least I didn’t blame a tv show. If you can’t accept your own responsibility for it, blame your parents, seems to be what everyone else does anyways.
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****Headache*****
“I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so, so scared!!!”
Hilarious!
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First of all, she’s a nut job who needs some serious psychiatric help. I, to my shame, did once, as a wee child, stick my sister in her butt cheek with a needle thinking she would pop and fly all over the room. It didn’t work, I was really disappointed, but reality made itself known to me and I know longer believed Bugs Bunny was real (damn it!). This chick has other issues, issues that have nothing to do with TV or Sex and the City. BTW, is it me or are everyone of the main actors on this program really, really old and looking like they need to put some clothes on? I know they were hot at some point in their life, but I feel like I’m looking at my aging mother when I see clips of the program, and I don’t want to see my mother in a halter top with her bazooms pushed together–is f*ing nasty, and not good nasty either.
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And ditto to most of what was said, these women on SaTC are also at the time,are not in their teens or twenties the were in their mid 30’s early 40’s kinda old to emulate when a teen.
headache: I need those!!!
Aye, Sinead Oconnor LOL!
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I’m with PJ on this one, and whoever said it was probably a sexual assault/molestation that actually triggered her behavior.
Even the woman admits that she ““It wasn’t ‘Sex and the City’s’ fault. I love the show, but I think it made it a little easier to justify my behavior.”” - she’s not blaming SaTC.
I know I had my SaTC moments when I was a early 20-something, experiencing a new city life and the beginning of an adult social life, which included the fun of going out hunting for men and going to bars. I’m now settled with a marriage and children and look back on my wild days with bittersweet amusement, not shame.
BUT when I 14 I watched “A so-called life” and you bet your ass I was a moody, angst-filled, teenage girl.
14 is WAY too young to be watching SaTC, I would never let my daughter watch a show that young and if I felt she WERE somehow mature enough, I would be watching it WITH her and discussing the show. -
“SATC” sucked, easily the most overrated HBO series ever. Anyone who was actually influenced by that piece of crap was born an idiot. This story is clearly a plant meant to remind everyone about how “socially significant” SATC was supposed to have been, which is, of course, bullshit.
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Coming from a 14 year old, i know for a fact that woman is nothing but a skank. You’d have to be an idiot to copy a tv show, and it’s just plain insulting to intelligence in general not take responsibility for your actions. But hey, I guess we live in a society where you need to blame tv shows for your promiscuity.
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My daughter wasn’t allowed to readh Cosmo, play violent video games, or watch shows like Sex & the City, South Park, and Friends until she was 18. Now, at age 19, she loves all of those shows and watches them with me, but she has also had the chance to develop a sense of morality and knows that TV is not the real world. Many high school kids aren’t mature enough to separate TV glamorous and fiction from reality. I say that it’s our job as parents to monitor their viewing until they are old enough. We will be at the theatre together on Friday to see the new movie!
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What I wanna know is where the heck were her parents when she was 14 and watching something that was clearly made for adults, NOT TEENAGERS!
It’s certainly NO fault of the show, the actresses or anyone but the parents and the girl herself. Apparently no one ever taught her to be accountable for her own actions.
It’s a truly sad situation, but follows many more like it with todays lazy parents.
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14 year old little girls sohould not be watching Sex and the City. Why would you watch it anyway? That show was made for adults to watch,not kids.
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It is amazing to see so much defence for Sex and the City, claiming that it has nothing to do with our behavours, but I wonder if you have watched it regularly(or other shows) why do you deny that you have nothing in common with the characters, you either are already a slut who is trying to find comfort or a confused person who needs a role model and thats the easiest thing u can be….
….now try being a real female and a sex symbol, different from them..that is what i call HOT 
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This is happening to women all over the western world.
They used films and tv shows to justify their slutty actions.
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People need to take responsibilty for their own damn actions!
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