- Les Yay: Melissa has a lesbian encounter halfway through the book. It is not all it's cracked up to be and she does not end up enjoying it or reciprocating.
- Unfortunate Implications:
- Gay men have better sex than straight men. Melissa P sees this when she goes to watch two men have sex hoping to see men treat each other as badly as they treat her.
- Melissa often allows her relationships to be very anti-feminist and even abusive while resenting them for being that way. This is not seen as a sad an interesting tale about a teenager's life, but often is seen as pure literotica.