Netflix's NEVER HAVE I EVER: An Indian Teen Sexual Conquistador

Sarah Larson summarized the opening scene of Netflix's Never Have I Ever in her New Yorker piece “Never Have I Ever,” Reviewed: Hotness and Hotheads" (May 10, 2020):

As the new Netflix coming-of-age series “Never Have I Ever” begins, its fifteen-year-old heroine, Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), before heading off to her first day of sophomore year in high school, kneels in front of her household’s shrine [...] she wants to be invited to a party where she has “the opportunity to say, ‘No cocaine for me, thanks’ ”; thinner forearm hair; and, most important, a boyfriend—“and not some nerd from one of my A.P. classes.” He should be “a stone-cold hottie who can rock me all night long,” she says. (This is startling—she looks more like a kid than an adult.) 

We agree with Larson that Devi's request for a "stone-cold hottie" boyfriend who could "rock" her "all night long" is startling. But we're confused by Larson's "[...] she looks more like a kid than an adult", because Larson already shared that Devi is a 15-year-old high school sophomore. 

And that's the premise of the 10 episode series - 15-year-old Devi attempting to lose her virginity. And Netlfix, knowing the power of the allure of nymphets, approached Mindy Kaling about creating and writing the series - after they read Kaling's biographies.

Mindy Kaling shared with Priya Arora in Arora's New York Times piece "Mindy Kaling’s Netflix Show Tells a New Kind of Story: One Like Hers" (April 27, 2020): “They [Netflix] had read my books and really loved the parts where I talk about being an adolescent and a teenager,” said Kaling. 

In the series, Devi shared with her therapist that her focus in life was "Poppin' my cherry doc!" And that she was, "Ready to bone."

And after Devi's classmate asked about the size of their schoolmate's penis, "Is his penis as big as it looks in those sweatpants?", Devi shared, "It's like I think about sex 24-7."

There's no apparent nympholepsy in the series, but interestingly, once Devi's mother discovered that Devi had a boyfriend, Devi's mother assumed that her 15-year-old daughter's boyfriend was Frank - the [middle-aged] crossing guard with the receding hairline!

In the end, John McEnroe, in a voice over, related to the viewers that Devi was, "[...] a friggin' sexual conquistador."

As a side note, with marijuana becoming mainstream and legal in a number of states, teens, in films and IRL, are indulging in cocaine. For example, in Netflix's I Am Not Okay With This, Stanley Barber shared with Sydney, "You do realize that the entire [high school] cheerleading squad are actually dong lines of cocaine in the upstairs bathroom?" 

This is partly due to the forbidden nature of the drug. For example, if Devi would have been offered marijuana, and replied ‘No marijuana for me, thanks’, that would not have been as shocking as, ‘No cocaine for me, thanks’. Not to mention pills. Devi begged her therapist for "[...] Paxil, Lexapro, Xanax, Zoloft? I'll try anything!"

AND JUST LIKE THAT (2021): Sexy Teen [Asian] Selfies

Here's IMDb's description of And Just Like That  - the Sex and the City reboot: 

The series will follow Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.

Lily, Charlotte & Rose

From the description, it doesn't appear that the HBO Max streaming series has anything to do with nympholepsy or nymphets but what IMDb leaves out is that Charlotte has two teen daughters: Rose Goldenblatt and Lily Goldenblatt.

Rose is a confused nymphet who doesn't seem know if she wants to be Jewish or atheist, cisgender or (butch) lesbian, human or alien. And if it turns out in, possible, subsequent seasons that Rose is a (butch) lesbian - that could make for some disturbing age-gap story lines. 

Rose's "Sexy" Workout Wear IG Selfie

On the other hand, we learned in s01e08 that Lily is a sneaky nymphet who has a "private" Instagram account where she posts selfies in what she described as "workout wear" (i.e., crop top and spandex bottom).

Mare of Easttown

Lily reminded me of Mare whom said, "Trust me. Teenage girls are fucking sneaky."

However, Charlotte said that Lily's workout wear selfie was "sexy" and that Lily had a [seductive] "look" in her eye. 

colin55 opined that Lily's crop top, spandex bottom, and look in her eye was "hawwwwwwwt"; however, Charlotte wanted to know if Lily was a teleiophile and if Colin is 55-years-old. 

In the next episode, Lily decided that she wanted to learn how to use a tampon. After Charlotte reminded, "[...] there's really only one hole that it can go into." Charlotte demanded that Lily, "Just stick it in! Jam it up there Lily! Just do it!" Ultimately, Lily shared, "It's in." #voila

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

It appears that And Just Like That is going to use the Tina Fey approach to portraying nymphets, which is peppering nympholepsy throughout the series, which is unlike Mindy Kaling who focuses her series' around nubile nymphets. 

Never Have I Ever

Max's ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ (2021): 6 Teen Handjobs & Student-Coach Sex!

Hannah Chambers' Cosmopolitan piece "‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Is the Most Realistic College TV Show…Maybe Ever" described the show well:

The Mindy Kaling–produced HBO Max series follows [the sex lives of] four roommates at Essex College, a prestigious New England school: 

Whitney, a soccer star whose mother is a powerful U.S. senator; 

Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet) [...], a naive high school valedictorian with a work-study scholarship; 

Bela (Amrit Kaur), a self-proclaimed “sex-positive” aspiring comic with conservative Indian parents; and 

Leighton (Reneé Rapp), an entitled Essex College legacy from New York City who’s hiding her queerness.

In addition, Chambers wrote: "For once, it’d be nice to hear stories about what really goes down at college…and that’s exactly what The Sex Lives of College Girls has accomplished." Thus, let's take a look at what, per Chambers, really does down at college. 

Let us begin with 18-year-old Bela whom professed in the premiere that she desired to have sex with (48-year-old) television host Seth Meyers. 

After Bela’s parents dropped her off at Essex, she informed them, “I’m 18-years-old. I’m in the middle of my re-invention.” Subsequently, to seduce the male staff of Catullan, the prestigious Essex College publication, into letting her be a freshman writer, Bela gave six of the Catullan college boys handjobs. Later, she boasted to her roommates, "I gave six handjobs!" And in episode 3, Bela shared, "[...] I masturbate to [SNL's 37-year-old] Kyle Mooney." 

Whitney professed to a roommate, "I like men - not boys." Consequently, in addition to being an Essex soccer star, Whitney had an affair with Coach Dalton - her married assistant soccer coach. Whitney informed Coach Dalton, "I'm finding it really difficult to concentrate during practice, because I want to fuck you so bad." Ergo, Whitney and her coach had sex in her coach's office and in his car. 

Unsurprisingly, Whitney wasn't the only Essex coed attracted to Coach Dalton. Here are some quotes from her teammates directed at Coach Dalton:

"Way ahead of you handsome."

"I have a question [...] How'd you get so fine?"

"Okay, daddy."

"Put me to bed, daddy!"

Interestingly, after the age-gap affair was leaked and Coach Dalton was fired, Whitney was consoled, shielded, and victimized. 

Head Soccer Coach, "You're 18. You don't need this following you around [for] the rest of your life." Whitney, "Thank you."

However, Whitney denied that she was a victim. For example, after she was told, "It's not your fault." Whitney replied, "No, it really is, unless someone else was sleeping with him, which I guess is possible." And Whitney confessed to her mother that she was not molested by Coach Dalton and that she was an [18-year-old] adult. 

Lastly, after Whitney shared with Leighton, “I may have had an affair with my married assistant coach,” Whitney replied, “While I’m sure this is considered some juicy stuff where you’re from, I went to a New York prep school. I've been making out with bartenders since I was, like, 14." That’s correct. Whitney belittled Whitney’s age-gap affair with her college coach, because Whitney had been making out with men since middle school.

In the New York Times piece, “‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Pursues an Awkward Education" (Nov. 15, 2021), Alexis Soloski asked: "Why is our culture so obsessed with the sex lives of young women?" Pauline Chalamet responded: "There’s a fetishization — a Lolita fetish [...]"

VELMA (2023): Nude Coolsville High Students, DILF City and Teen Lipstick Lesbians!

Per HBO Max: “Velma is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. This original and humorous spin unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers.”

Mindy Kaling executive produced the series, and she played Velma. That news set off our nympholepsy and teleiophilia alarms, which was warranted because, about a minute into the first episode, viewers were entertained by nude nymphets showering in the Coolsville High locker room, which was followed by a nude teen catfight. (Viewers were entertained by the nude showering coeds in episode 10 as well.)

As for teleiophilia, Velma expressed her attraction to (much) older men - more than once. For example, in episode 1, after Fred showed Velma a social media post of his tall and blond father, Velma responded, “Zam, DILF city!”

Oxford Languages: DILF noun | a sexually attractive older man, typically one who has children.

Urban Diction: DILF acronym | "Dad I'd Like to F***".

Toward the end of the first episode, Velma shared that she would like to see a naked picture of LeBron. And in episode 5, in response to learning that Norville was dating Gigi, a cool girl, Velma said, “Damn, this makes me think I could bag Don Lemon.”

As for nympholepsy slash ephebophilia, in episode 2, Velma related that 18-year-old Sarah had a Sugar Daddy, and “Her parents are cool with it.”

In episode 4, at the Crystal Cove Town Hall, Velma unveiled the Top 5 Coolsville High Hot Girls to Mayor Dave whom responded, “Ooh, they are so hot. Daddy likey.”

In episode 8, Daphne shared, “But a while back, I was low-key obsessed with someone […]” What was Velma’s response? “Oh, so like me and Neil deGrasse Tyson.” And in episode 8, Gigi said, “Norville, I wanna go with you to my cabin in the woods [to have sex].” But before Norville could respond, the Coolsville High elderly and balding janitor whispered seductively, “I’ll go.”

In pop culture, nympholepsy is typically coupled with teen lipstick lesbianism. And Velma is no different, as Velma and Daphne, apparent teen bisexuals, had an on-again\off-again affair. (Interestingly, the “hot” Betty and Veronica kiss in the Riverdale pilot was referenced, which was when, in an effort to increase their chances of being picked for the cheerleading team, Veronica passionately kissed Betty in front of the cheerleading captain and her assistants.)

In addition, there were other random bits of salaciousness in the animated series. For example, in episode 1, the owner of Spooner’s Malt Shop, the town’s most popular diner, shared the secret to the diner’s success with Velma: “Just good food, great tunes. And I let teens have sex in the bathroom.”

In episode 6, Daphne and her father dined at Nana’s Nipples - a strip club where Velma’s father pleaded, “Velma please. Can’t a father and daughter just enjoy a nice meal at a strip club without it being awkward?” Subsequently, to the onlookers dismay and despite a neon sign that read 18+ Only, Daphne took to the stripper pole. And in episode 3, while visiting Fred in prison, Velma lifted her fountains and asked Norville, “Is it obvious I have two bean bags in my bra?”

Despite its repeated use of the allure of nymphets for streams, Velma received a measly 41% Average Tomatometer and a 7% Average Audience Score; however, it was (somehow) renewed for second season.