This leaves Otis with an extensive knowledge of human sexuality, if zero personal experience. Otis’s affliction is made all the more ironic because his mother Jean (Gillian Anderson) is a renowned sex therapist. Sex Education takes a refreshingly different tactic with the story of Otis Milburn ( Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield) a tightly wound teen who can’t even masturbate without having a panic attack.
Films and television series have mined humor and pathos out of hormone-riddled young men unable to keep it in their pants who are on a mission to lose their virginity by any means necessary (even/especially at the expense of their female counterparts). The “horny teenage boy” narrative is a well-worn staple of the coming of age genre.
