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How I Learned to Drive, a dramatic comedy by Paula Vogel, is a play that is as funny as it is disturbing. Set in suburban Maryland, it deals with a young girl, nicknamed Lil’ Bit, and her sexual relationship with her uncle, nicknamed Peck. The story is told though a series of flashbacks from Lil’ Bit as she sees things at thirty-five years old. The first time her uncle sexually molested Lil’ Bit, he was …

…they are twenty-five. This gives a message to young girls that sex is what sells, and that their sexuality is the most important part of them. It also furthers older men’s desires for young girls as sexual objects. Although this play is filled with humor, it also sends the very serious message that raw sexuality is not something that should be put to the forefront of young girl’s minds ! too early. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**