Rated R, directed by Su Chao-pin (蘇照彬), with Chen Sheng (陳昇), Kwan Liang (光良), Liu Hung-hua (劉虹樺), Hsiao-ying (小應), in Chinese with Chinese and English subtitles.
Lin Tsu-chuang, a 15 year-old, naive-looking teenager, is troubled and anxious about sex because of his extraordinarily large penis. He dares not date girls and the only consolation for his anxiety is to indulge in the world of porn. He becomes good friends with the owner of a porn bookshop, but remains a loner at school, even ignoring pretty Lin Xiao-ying who secretly adores him. One day, the bookshop owner dies and leaves Lin a key to a secret place where there lives a porn star and her policeman husband, whom Lin peeps in on every day. He finally realizes that pornography does not equal sex and that loving a person is really ``better than sex.'' But Lin Xiao-ying, who grows disappointed with love, becomes a juvenile delinquent and begins robbing convenient stores.
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