Not So Pure and Simple

Parents need to know that Not So Pure and Simple is about high school junior Del, who's dealing with a world that increasingly revolves around sex. There was a rash of pregnancies among girls in his school, rumored to have been driven by a pact. Then the girls who gave birth started releasing YouTube videos outing the boys who are the fathers. Because of this, the school reconsiders its abstinence-only sex ed curriculum and replaces it with a class called "Healthy Life." In response to that, a local pastor creates a "Purity Pledge" group, for teens who promise to stay virgins (or stop having sex if they'd started). Meanwhile, Del's dad presses a condom on his son "just in case," subtly encouraging him to be a "ladies' man." And Del joins the purity club just to get closer to a girl he's infatuated with. It's mentioned in one scene that teens are playing sexual party games while the parents are on another floor of the house, drinking margaritas instead of supervising the party. There are a few descriptions of assaults, including a boy who throws hot coffee on a girl who refuses to give him her name and phone number. There are references to sexual assaults that are not described. A girl escapes from a situation where a boy has her trapped in a private area and she fears being sexually assaulted. A boy punches another boy in the eye in a rivalry over a girl. There's infrequent use of profanity, including "f--k," "s--t," and "a--hole," and frequent use of the word "d--k," both as an insult and as a reference to the body part. There are frequent, gratuitous mentions of consumer brands, including Instagram, Google, MacBook, FaceTime, and YouTube.