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what's interesting to me
(and so far, it seems no one has commented on) is that she makes a comment about trying and failing to achieve "sexual normalcy."
The girl doesn't seem to be having a whole lot of "innocent," youthful fun while hooking up with a Catholic Italian rapper in a train cabin. (Since they don't go all the way, it doesn't count, I guess...) She doesn't seem to be getting her kicks from the danger and seediness that are a part of one-night stands. (I too laughed at the "potential rapist" line.)
She's doing it because she's romanticized one-night stands as an integral part of the hip, post-modern women's experience, much the way girls in the past would romanticize aspects of the traditional white wedding.