“Over the years, there’s been some top-tier content that’s brought viewers to their yearning knees: Hot Priest considering giving up God for ‘Fleabag,’ that season of ‘Bridgerton’ where Jonathan Bailey craved Simone Ashley so fervently he couldn’t help but inhale the air as she walked by,” Allison P. Davis writes. “But none of these have inspired the same chemical reaction in adult women as season three of ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty.’” And the feelings #TSITP provoked weren’t just a fling. The show ignited a sustained fire in our collective loins: 2025 became the year adults started yearning to yearn again. At the link in bio, babymeatballs explores how this year’s spate of teen romances opened a portal to an experience that we, as adults, had forgotten — or weren’t sure we could still have. Video: Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios