Everyone learns a stern lesson in this sex education roadshow film about one Lois Marsh, a 17 year old girl who ends up pregnant after the big graduation dance and then nearly dead from a sloppy, illegal abortion. The film places the blame for all of this squarely on the girl’s parents, two glowingly stupid hamsters who still regard their daughter as a child and refuse to tell to her about what happens when a man puts his snake in a woman’s grass.
The first hour is almost amusingly polite. The seedy and clinical details are related via suggestion and old-fashioned euphemism, everything floating on a fluffy white cloud of discretion. Lois, for example, is never pregnant—she’s “in trouble”. The subject matter is sexual, but the text is innocent enough at times that you half-expect to see Dennis the Menace dashing down the street past Dagwood Bumstead in the background.
Until the movie drops the dramatics and closes with a harrowing rollercoaster ride of sex education clips—films that poor Lois should have seen, the makers of Street Corner want us to know—that show us real-life birth footage of a baby in close-up being pulled out of a furry vagina, a stomach sliced open for a cesarean operation, a parade of pricks and pussies adorned with syphilis pustules, and some poor guy’s enormous gonorrhea-swollen ballsac. This montage of baby-expelling twats and diseased dicks may be the exact same footage used in Because of Eve. They sure look similar. I’ll leave it to another reviewer to analyze these scenes, though. I really don’t want to look at them again.