Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

OK, Teller, you go first.

- Uh, Goudeau? - 16.

- Excuse me, Tim? - 17.

- Patti? - 19.

- Phyllis? - 16.

- Bert? - 18.

16.

Hi, I'm Penn Jillette, and this is my partner, Teller.

Those numbers were the ages we all were when we had sex for the first time.

- Uh, Gene? - 17.

- Vera? - 16.

So exactly why the fuck

do we Americans get so fucking uptight

about teens having sex with each other?

Because, let's face it,

we were all teens the first time we had sex.

Teens were fucking before you were born.

And they'll be fucking after you die.

So why are we getting our granny panties in such a bunch?

Trying to stop teens from fucking is bullshit!

"Teen Sex"

Lock the doors. Board up the windows.

Hide your children under the bed.

Some people think technology, the media,

and even homosexuals are turning our otherwise angelic young people

into sleezy, sex-crazed sluts!

So we thought we'd check.

Are the media and sexy new technology

really making today's teens more sexual?

Tonight, we'll hear from this dapper radio personality...

Things are going on now that are disgusting and vile.

And it brings about the decline of our society that we're watching.

This concerned mom...

Do I think that the media perpetuates teen sexuality?

Absolutely.

This guy who says technology is dangerous...

Every single action you're taking

is potentially public and permanent.

And this 12-year-old boy who some are calling a sex offender.

It was scary 'cause you didn't know what was gonna happen.

We'll meet some high-schoolers who've experienced anti-gay bigotry...

I heard about it, and I saw it all the time.

And a whole bunch of teens who'll confess their true feelings about sex...

Teenagers are having sex,

and they're having a lot of it.

Yep, tonight it's all about out-of-control teen sex!

We're not gonna talk about those issues.

Oh, we're going there. We are definitely going there.

The producers and director of "Bullshit!"

live in California. We live in Nevada.

When it comes time to shoot the standups,

we work here on the Nevada/California state line.

Now age of consent for sex in California is, uh, 18.

In Nevada, it's 16.

So this lovely couple can have--

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Where you going?

You cannot be together in California.

You can't do that, the age--

What, what, what's--

Huh, that's still legal, that's fine.

That young woman has reached-- No, no, no!

If you go to California, he goes to prison.

Let me check.

Yep. Fine, legal.

Gay sex at 18, California, fine.

Ok, now this gets confusing, girls. Listen, listen, listen.

In Nevada, the heterosexual age of consent is 16,

but you have to be 18 to have gay sex.

Hey, where--where you going, girls? Where you going?

Maine. Anybody can legally fuck there at 16.

Well, have fun. If you get any extra time,

try the lobster.

The current generation of parents in this country

are the worst generation of parents in America that have ever existed.

Bill Cunningham here.

Heard everyday on 700 WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio,

and every Sunday night on premiere radio networks.

What's happened is that now girls,

because of messages from cell phones, from iPods,

from this disgusting rap music

that talks about bodily functions,

oral sex, backwards sex, upside down sex,

sex, sex and sex.

And so everything they see, everything they read,

and everything they hear tell them, "become sexual."

And so there is not a family structure.

There aren't churches around telling girls "quit doing that."

So girls are reverting to their primordial ooze form

of having sex when they're 13, 14, and 15.

And their purpose is to, uh, recreate,

have fun, dance, drink, and probably fornicate unnecessarily.

Absolutely!

That is exactly the-- Oh, wait.

You think those are bad, don't you?

Keep the girls locked up till they're about 22 years old.

Sounds like Bill blames the "girls."

I wonder if he wants to tie them down and spank them

while he locks them up.

We should talk to some parents for a second opinion.

For parents who are raising kids in this society,

it's oversexed. It's--

They're--they're bombarded by it everywhere they turn.

Hi, my name is Cindy Rushton.

And I am a wife, a mom, and a speaker and a writer.

And Cindy also hosts her own radio show,

which she calls "Mom to Mom."

My heartbeat behind "Mom to Mom" radio show

has been to encourage and equip

and inspire moms to keep on keeping on.

No, Cindy's not calling the police

about our "Bullshit!" crew's inappropriate behavior,

she's using the phone to do her show.

Their temptations, their concerns

at this age are very real.

This may look like a couch potato's dream job,

and it is.

Still, Cindy says over a million people access her podcast from 55 countries.

Cindy's kind of an international nervous Nellie.

One-on-one dating is so dangerous today...

There are too many kids, I believe,

that they're left alone...

A parent would have to be blind or not care

to think that the media is not a threat...

I was praying that my children

would not sexting or post pictures on the Internet...

I-I find it alarming...

There are real dangers of date rape...

That, that alarms me.

So how did Cindy-- a mother herself--

deal with all those fears?

My children were home schooled from the time

that Matthew was 5 and Elizabeth was 2.

And they continued all the way until they graduated.

So sweet.

But, Cindy, wasn't home schooling kind of a drastic step

just to keep your children sheltered from the outside world?

I was concerned that home schooling

might make my kids kind of a social retard.

And I was really interested in them being involved in things.

But also... I really do believe going to a public school

would have opened them up to a lot of things that...

they wouldn't of had me right there beside them

along the way to kinda discern, is this truth?

Uh, Cindy, saying "social retard" is, uh,

socially unacceptable.

So how about an example of you helping your children discern the truth?

"I kissed a girl, and I liked it."

You know that--that--

I was listening to that song and I was, like,

calling my kids saying,

"You do not sing this song, do you?"

That's your example? Fuck!

I kind of like that song.

Shock-jock Bill won't be playing Katy Perry

or any other music on his Run-for-the-Hills radio show.

Nope. You'll hear only the passion of his voice.

News organizations are essentially lazy.

All great cultures rise and fall.

And America's now at the top starting to decline.

I see America becoming the new Rome,

with the naked Roman baths and these naked gay clubs,

and sexting and all this. We've become the new Greeks.

While those gross Greeks and rotten Romans

were sitting in baths and fucking,

they were also conquering and civilizing the world,

inventing democracy and the idea of a republic,

revolutionizing mathematics, astronomy, medicine,

agriculture, architecture, and philosophy.

Oh, so you think a floating object

displaces its own weight in water?

Did you tell Archimedes about this?

We'll, uh, we'll test it in just a moment.

Wild sex didn't start when Greece and Rome were in decline.

It was a hallmark of their golden ages.

We don't give a damn if Pythagoras used dicks for sides of his triangle.

He kicks your ignorant ass, Bill Cunningham.

Oh, you, uh, squared the hypotenuse.

Good thinkin'.

So what about sexting?

A lot of people are saying it's corrupting our teens.

Should we worry about the hysteria?

Teens can absolutely ruin their life

by being irresponsible with digital technology.

My name is Richard Guerry, executive director, IROC.

Richard says "IROC" is an acronym

for the "Institute for Responsible Online and Cell Phone Communication."

Not to be picky, but that would actually be

tif-row-ack-puh-cah. Just sayin'.

Richard conducts seminars around the country

about the dangers of technology.

He calls them IROC concerts.

'Cause they're so out-of-control!

Let's get 5 examples of responsibility. I'll start off, OK?

Showing up to school on time.

How about accurate acronyms? Ok, maybe not.

If IROC didn't exist,

teens would find out about the dangers of digital technology the hard way.

They would learn after they've made a mistake.

They would learn after they've already made something

that has potentially altered their entire life.