Psychology Today | 26.01.2026 22:09
You’re out of town, and your presumably responsible teenage son decides to take out the sports car, meets a woman who turns out to be a prostitute, brings her back to his family home, and proceeds to have a giant party, only for her pimp to show up and take all his family’s possessions for what he claimed were unpaid profits. Back in the '80s, being a teenager was truly “Risky Business.” Also, Joel demonstrated the kind of independence skills and business acumen that led to a happy ending. It’s hard to imagine, even in a present-day cinematic drama, that a teen today could have managed such a gambit.
