ABSTRACT
‘Chapter 6: Sex’ stresses that this film might seem ‘sexy’ but ventures far from it. Y Tu Mamá También treats ‘sexual’ and variously related events, actions, and ideas as youthful explorations of intimacy. Where the censored version of the film reverts in some ways to conventional youth-film love stories, the poststructural aesthetics most fully realized in the uncensored version precisely, systematically de-structure traditionally romantic notions of love and sex. Borrowing from Anthony Giddens’ explanations, traditional-romantic conceptions of love and sex are displaced by ‘plastic sexuality’ and confluent love-intimacy as part of contemporary revolutions. Incomplete and on-going pursuits not only emulate the transitional ages of adolescence but also stress the ‘becoming’ processes of identity formulation themselves.
