John Goss uses video to speak to and critique the Western perception and treatment of sexuality, race, and youth. His work Wild Things captures the issues at play of two adolescent Latino men in Los Angles as they live between traditions, expectations, discrimination, and ageism. Images and structure provide rich metaphors for larger comments on a society's function around the sexual establishment of youth. In "Out" Takes, Goss uses material from Pee Wee's Playhouse, At the Movies, and a Japanese sex-ed television show to "reposition" a narrative so that it functions to highlight an overly conservative attitude regarding sexuality portrayed to children in U.S. mainstream television. The liberal, educational, and straight foreword nature of the Japanese show contrast to the hidden and double meanings of Pee Wee's Playhouse, while commentary from at the movies (criticizing Pee Wee) displays a hostile attitude towards any non-traditional sexual enlightenment on television. "Goss's efforts to dissolve the barriers between youth, race, and sexuality allow us to focus on the hysteria surrounding innocence and its preservation." (Gomez, p. 11)