What We Can Learn About Shame & Sex From Yes, God, Yes

In an opening scenes of the new film Yes, God, Yes, 16-year-old Alice (played by Natalia Dyer) roams the halls of her Catholic school, surrounded by abstinence posters. Later, she attends a “morality class,” where Father Murphy (Timothy Simons) teaches that masturbation and sex before marriage are “against God’s will.” Her friends spread a rumor about her “tossing someone’s salad” (a term she doesn’t know the meaning of), and shame her for rewinding back to the the sex scene in Titanic.