ABSTRACT
Several sexual behaviors that were once condemned are now normative, even expected—practically institutionalized. Generally speaking, sexual deviance is any form of behavior of a genital nature of which a substantial sector of the society strongly disapproves, and which casts the enactor into social disrepute and disfavor. The Graduate is most pointedly about sexual wrongdoing and its aftermath. The Graduate broke taboos as a result of its sexy story and how that story was situated socially and culturally. The film became the touchstone of an entire generation because it spoke to the personal issues of the day—the discontent, the malaise, the anomie and feelings of rootlessness of the baby-boomer generation which questioned the values that their generation’s parents struggled so hard to establish.
