In the film, "Slums of Beverly Hills," Vivian Abramowitz, the main character, is a young woman who is living in her own crazy world. She is growing up in Beverly Hills during the late seventies. As she beings her sexual coming of age she has an extremely difficult time understanding and accepting these changes, she even tends to question her sexuality and the people that are around her. During the film, the characters struggle with their finances, which many people even today can understand. Also it seemed as if teenagers became part of a subculture, of their own. Slums of Beverly Hills represent the struggles and conflict of everyday Americans, all at the same time watching Vivian understand more about her. The first scene opens up to Vivian and her father in the mall attempting to get a fitting for her first ever bra at the age of fifteen. By looking into the film with a sociological view, I found it interesting that the older women pointed out that Vivian is a “tomboy”. Right off the bat, her sexuality is showing through. She seems to be nervous about her dad being with her, and even the sales associate is very amazed that this is the first time she has ever come to get one. Throughout the entirety of the film Vivian has a difficult time accepting who she is, and how her body is transforming into something quiet different then what she is clearly used to. Relating her experiences to the real world of others, I believe she never had any guidance due to the lack of a female figure within their household. Typically, within specific family configurations there is a correlation related to adolescent sexual intercourse experience. A study that was done on women aged 15-19 found that, “teenage young women who have been raised by a single parent are more likely to have non martial sexual intercourse than young women from intact marriages” (Miller). This study can relate to Vivian because a single parent too has raised her, since her parents divorced and her mother moved to the other side of the country. Vivian had no one to talk help her understand what was going on with her body, and I felt like she was more curious that interested in Eliot, her neighbor who lived next door. That’s why she would always say, “It was just a building thing.” Teenage years can be fairly awkward, and frankly pretty uncomfortable. During this time