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What's funny about revenge of the nerds is that no one on set, even the girls, thought anything of that plot point at all at the time. It wasn't until the 2010s that the backlash against it for that scene became a major sticking point.
Not to say it was ever acceptable to impersonate someone else to have sex with a girl. That is rape by deception, but movies did have different standards at the time. For example a lot of movies had scenes were children were put in fairly awkward situations that would be scandalous today but at that time the whole 'children pretending to be adults' wasn't seen as a big deal.
The nostalgia critic in his review of The Chipmunks movie (the 80s one) did bring up that point to explain the mentality behind those scenes at the time.