[ SECRET POST #4644 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4644 ⌋

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Comments

[erinptah]

I mean, something doesn't have to be OTT graphic to be triggering. (In the real sense, not in the sense of "I'm upset, and I want to make it sound fancier." The majority of the population doesn't have triggers in the first place.) A general reference to an off-page sexual assault could still hit a reader right in the trauma, if the circumstances are close enough or they're really invested in the character or they just happen to read it on a bad day.

Someone who's read a hundred romance novels (or whatever other category) will have a good idea of the formula, but there's always somebody who just picked up their first book in the genre. So "readers will just know" isn't a good thing to count on.

Plus, there's always genre-bending exceptions! I'd already read a whole lot of sci-fi by the first time I picked up an SF novel that threw in a random scene of Surprise Graphic Bestiality. (Not, like, animalistic aliens or enhanced-to-be-sentient creatures! Just a regular old leopard.)

It wasn't a personally traumatic experience, or anything -- OP is right that most readers don't "need" warnings -- but nobody's claiming "people with severe triggers" are the only group the content warnings would be helpful for.