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| On the image's right side -- Lisa and Robbie dancing on August 10 |
On Saturday, August 24, Baby pours a pitcher of water on Robbie and him to stay away from Lisa or else Baby will get Robbie fired from his job. Baby's threat is based on her presumption that she would be able to convince her father, Jake Houseman, to convince the hotel's owner Max Kellerman to fire Robbie.
Before breakfast on Friday, August 30, Lisa snitches to her father Jake that Baby was away from their hotel bedroom all night. At breakfast, Jake announces to his family that they all will depart early from the hotel on the following day, Saturday. However, Lisa persuades Jake to change his mind and allow the family to stay longer.
On Friday night, Lisa and Baby are in their hotel bedroom, and Lisa tells Baby, "I've decided to go all the way with Robbie."
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The movie does not show that Lisa and Baby made peace with each other during Friday. They told each other about their sexual situations. Baby confided to Lisa her sexual activities with Johnny Castle. In return, Lisa now confides to Baby that she intends to "go all the way with Robbie".
The ABC original movie's best scene is where Lisa and Baby begin to confide to each other.
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During the mid-day of Saturday, August 31, Baby and Johnny see Lisa, Robbie and Jake walking together and talking about the Domino Theory.
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| Robbie and Jake listening to Lisa talk about the Domino Theory |
Now we return to Saturday, August 24, when Baby poured water on Robbie and threatened to get him fired.
During that day, Lisa is thinking about her previous night's argument with Robbie. He wanted to go to third base with her, but she insisted that they stay on second base. In other words, Lisa allowed Robbie to touch her breasts, but she refused to touch his penis. Her idea of progressing sexually at the golf course was that she would begin to allow Robbie to see and fondle her naked breasts. Robbie was disappointed and even angry that she still refused to touch his penis, even through his pants.
This argument was normal in the going-steady courtship conventions in the early 1960s. Robbie was playing his role by making sexual advances, and Lisa was playing her role by setting Robbie's limits. This argument would not cause Robbie and Lisa to break up. They would continue to date and would renegotiate during their subsequent petting sessions.
As Lisa thought about this situation, she did not know, however, that Robbie had been threatened by Baby. Surely Robbie was intimidated by Baby's threat and so stayed away from Lisa for at least several days. Lisa attributed his avoidance entirely to their argument about sexual bases.
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Robbie's fear of Baby's threat dissipated after a few days because he learned from gossip that Baby had provided the necessary money for Penny Johnson's abortion. Also, Baby and Johnny were hiding while they were practicing for their Sheldrake performance, so Baby was not in a position to watch what Robbie and Lisa were doing.
Soon Lisa and Robbie were meeting again. In their petting sessions, they stayed on second base. She bared her breasts so that he could admire, fondle and kiss them. Perhaps Lisa gradually compromised her limitations by touching his penis through his pants at the very end of the petting sessions.
Robbie was progressing much slower than he wanted to with Lisa, but he was progressing. Meanwhile, he respected Lisa's propriety and resistance. He determined that she was a virgin and so might become a suitable wife for him.
Also, Robbie appreciated that Lisa tried to engage with him intellectually. At Robbie's suggestion, Lisa read The Fountainhead and discussed Ayn Rand's philosophy with him. After Robbie mentioned the Domino Theory, Lisa tried to develop and express her own thoughts on that subject.
Furthermore, Robbie appreciated that Lisa obtained her father's approval of their dating relationship. Robbie admired Jake and was pleased by Jake's approval. Robbie learned gradually that Jake was professionally successful and financially comfortable. Robbie might marry into the Houseman family and thus enjoy various advantages.
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Even though Lisa stubbornly kept her sexual relationship with Robbie on second base, she perceived that Robbie gradually was committing himself more to their relationship. So far, she had not had to masturbate his stupid penis in order to keep him going steady with her.
However, Lisa figured that she would have to go to third base with him in order to continue their relationship after the summer vacation. College classes did not start until late September, and Lisa wanted to meet with him during that remaining interval.
Although Lisa figured she had to go to third base with Robbie, she remained reluctant to do so. Lisa worried that even if she did so, she might not be rewarded by a continuing relationship with Robbie. After the college semester began, they would be living too far apart.
Maybe, Lisa thought, she should save her third-base experience for some other man who would be more likely to go steady with her for a much longer time.
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When Lisa learned on Friday, August 30, that her younger sister Baby was already masturbating and humping Johnny, Lisa rethought her own reluctance. If Baby was enjoying such sexual activities with a man who soon would disappear from her life, then Lisa might do the same.
That very night, after hearing in their hotel bedroom Baby tell how fun it was to masturbate and hump Johnny, Lisa exclaimed that she too would "go all the way" with Robbie. In those circumstances, the expression "going all the way" meant going to third base -- as Baby had done.
Lisa would not catch up with Baby right away. On the following evening, Saturday, Lisa would allow Robbie to dry-hump her for a while and then take his naked penis out of his pants and masturbate him to orgasm.
If that experience turned out well on Saturday evening, then Lisa might allow Robbie to wet-hump her on the following, Sunday, evening.
Like Baby, Lisa would keep her panties on all the time. Like Baby, Lisa would not touch her boyfriend's germ-covered penis with her mouth.
For oral sex to maybe happen, the boyfriend would have to propose marriage.
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During the mid-day of Saturday, August 31, Lisa hinted to Robbie that she would go to third base with him that evening. She did not explicitly say so, but she felt that her hint communicated her intention adequately.
All day, Lisa mentally rehearsed her song "Hula Hana", which expressed her desire to give Robbie a hand-job.
After hinting into Robbie, though, Lisa became reluctant again. She wondered whether she really should become a slut just because her sister Baby had become a slut. Baby played with Johnny's penis even thought Johnny would disappear soon from her life -- but Lisa still felt she herself should save such an experience for her future husband.
After Lisa hinted to Robbie, her subsequent thoughts and actions were expressed by the soundtrack son "Yes".
Driving around,Like the singer, Lisa spent the entire day and much of the evening going back and forth in her mind about going to third base with Robbie.
I just can't hear a sound,
Except my own wheels turning.
Wasting the day --
I'm just running away
From a heart that's a burning,
But I can't run forever.
Yes! We're gonna fall in love,
And it feels so right.
Yes, we're gonna make love.
It's gonna be tonight.
I can just imagine
Hugging and teasing
And loving and squeezing
All night.
I've made up my mind --
This is gonna be mine.
I'm so glad I waited.
Why did I try
To figure out why?
Everything can't be anticipated
I can't wait to tell him.
Oh, yes!
Eventually Lisa made up her mind to do so -- YES! -- but by then she was too late.
Robbie had understood Lisa's hint and had waited for her to come to his cabin. While he was waiting, however, Vivian showed up unexpectedly and began to seduce him immediately. Furthermore, Robbie figured that with Vivian he would go all the way to fourth base that very evening.
Lisa made up her mind and arrived at Robbie's cabin too late.
Lisa was dismayed to find Robbie having sex with another woman, but she was fortunate to learn then -- rather than later -- that she could not count on him to be her steady boyfriend.
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See my follow-up article Lisa Houseman's Other Suitor.
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