Photo: Elizabeth Morris/Netflix The mystique of Judy Blume’s 1975 novel Forever … lies in its frankness. Her depiction of two teens who fall in love and go on ski trips and slowly, gradually work their way from kissing to hand jobs and intercourse and orgasms hits at a precise, paradoxical point of what’s most shocking about teenage life: It is full of taboos, yet all those taboos are being broken all the time. A 2025 adaptation of Forever … must juggle several questions at once: How can