17,3 Sobre o amor (2020)

Knowledge equals protection

If you are looking for a good sex ed course, you have found it! Frankly, this drama should be an obligatory watch for all teenagers and their parents.

What comes out here is the total lack of communication between the kids and the adults be it at home or in school. The adults expect the blind obeissance from the kids who need answers to their questions about life and are not getting them. So they just stumble blindly in the dark, hoping to guess the answer by trial and error. But in this case, the errors can be life changing!

This drama tells the story of three 17 yr old girls on the bring of adulthood but still so ignorant about life. They do not get the knowledge they need from adults, so they confide in each other and try to figure things out.

Sakura is an ordinary girl who feels pressured by articles saying the average age for the first sex experience is when you are 17.3 yrs old. Supported by her two friends she goes to her boyfriends house but bolts at the last minute. He makes fun of her in school so she hides in the biology lab where she meets Yu who confirms to her that she was right to do what she did. She also has an apparently close minded mother difficult to talk to.
Yuna is the sexually active teen, having already had 5 boyfriends the last of whom gave her an STD. She falls afterwards for a handsome boy who is actually a virgin and has no idea what to do.
Tsumugi is a quiet, studious girl not interested in love or dating and confused about her feelings. She is brought up by single father and is convinced he does not care about her but just sees her as a woman who needs to get married and have kids to be happy.
Luckily for them, there is the no nonsense biology teacher who gives them guidance they need.


The characters are a bit of cliché but they serve as examples and they were ultimately well presented. My favourite was Asahi Yu, a smart boy who doesn't are what others think of him (which is so unusual amongst teenagers who live for the likes from others). He is instrumental in helping the girls come out of their confusion.

It seems that this series tackles every problem involving sex a teenager might encounter: the first experience, peer pressure, gender, pregnancy, protection ...and they are all well explained through the stories of these three girls and their friends. They stresses the importance of education and communication.

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This drama is cool without being cliche, as it guides viewers through the sexual development of youth. Despite being naïve about certain things, the characters were willing to learn about the different sexual concepts that aren’t necessarily traditional.

It is refreshing to see how the three friends differ in their outlook on love, lust, and beyond. While some are shy, they still communicate their concerns and thoughts to each other, albeit ironically, in a very public restaurant.

I find this drama highly entertaining and educational without being preachy. It’s certainly hilarious how things kept falling out of Sakura’s bag, and how shocked she is at finding things she deemed “dirty” are actually a normal part of human sexuality. I am stanning also for the ace and bi rep, especially after both Tsumugi’s and Yu’s speech.

Even with only nine brief episodes, this drama thoroughly explores everything related to sex, including, but not limited to pregnancy, birth control, consent, periods, etc. The show thoroughly examines these subjects and handles them honestly, without disguising the truth. It certainly is a progressive approach to education in an Asian country, mostly perpetuated by conservative principles.

And as one teacher suggested, it is important for schools to provide proper sex education so that students can make informed decisions and not make assumptions about sex. Highly recommend this drama as it dispels the misconceptions and myth about sex.

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Lack of plot

The series talks really well about sexuality and sexual desires of teenage girls. That being the only advantage of the series. When it comes to plot, it has nearly none. The conversations between characters are written in a way to show many posible situations, outomes and solutions about sexuality, almost like in manual. Its hard to like characters when they are just a vesel for the type (asexual, "normal", promiscous), and not much character beside, which becomes more apparent in any conversation the three girls hold.
In the first any situation the asexual will openly say things like "i don't get why you want to date", "i will never have sex" even though she never learned about the posibility of pople being asexual, and has only normative frinds. She just skipped whole self discovery panic time that not het teenangers have to be confident in not liking anyone, only to have the crisis emerge in episode two when its time for her arc (in ep 1 she was more of the side character).
I only watched two episodes so can't say more, but it has little value for a person thats not teenenger struglling with sex life. It is just boring.

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