Emergency Contact

Penny has violent thoughts when she's angry or frustrated, like fantasizing about punching someone or punching through a window, but she never acts on them. She relates a past trauma when someone continued to have sex with her after she said no; there was no struggle or other physical violence aside from the nonconsensual sex. A character tells about getting slapped in the face once. Penny is verbally bullied once. Penny refers to someone she finds creepy as "possibly pedo."

College-age teens and young adults make a lot of sexual references and talk about various issues like periods, condoms, keeping track, UTIs, and more. Some kissing with brief descriptions, including once in bed with clothes on. Penny and Sam sleep in the same bed fully clothed. A pregnancy scare includes a brief discussion of abortion. Lots of flirting. Unwanted sexting includes nude pictures that don't show any genitalia. Mention of a past kiss that Penny walked out on when the boy put her hand on his "junk" while he was wearing what seemed to be bathing-suit bottoms. A 14-year-old brags about "bagging" lots of girls.

"Slut," "whore," "MILF," "bitches," "goddammit," "Jesus" and "Christ" as exclamations, "a--hole," "helluva," "d--k" (name-calling), "d--king around," "damn," "s--t," "GTFO," "a--crack," "underboob," "FML," "puto" (name-calling in Spanish), "penis," "hella," "ballsy," "bulls--t," "boner killer," "jizz," "crap."

Sam is in recovery for alcohol abuse, mentions past incidents of excessive drinking, consequences like hangovers. He tasted his first beer when he was 6, and at 11 hung out with older, heavy drinkers, drinking like them. Mention of a game where you duct-tape malt liquor or wine coolers to your hands. Sam's mother has a drinking problem; lots of drinking at trailer park where she lives. Penny thinks cigarettes are awful but imagines Sam looking cool doing it. She occasionally drinks (champagne at Christmas, sake at a sushi place); she has sparkling wine at a party and talks later about alcohol as an effective social lubricant. Mention that a friend is drunk, high, or both at a party. A character smokes weed. Penny speculates that her mom takes Ativan. Cigarette smoking, vaping.