. As hormones surge, they don’t just change the body; they rewire how boys perceive attraction, social status, and intimacy.

Furthermore, the hygiene segments were legendary. The 90s were a time of anti-bacterial everything, and the "Body Odor" segments of these videos were designed to strike fear into the hearts of middle schoolers. If you didn't shower twice a day and use deodorant, the video implied, your social life was over. The "pizza face" acne segments were equally traumatizing, presented with a severity that suggested a pimple was a moral failing rather than a hormonal reality.

The educational materials of 1991 (often from Kimberly-Clark or Tampax) focused heavily on hygiene and discretion .