[ SECRET POST #4648 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4648 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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04. [SPOILERS for Avengers Endgame]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of underage sex]

[Stephen King's It]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Mm, that makes a lot of sense. Like, it's NORMAL for young teens to be into reading about sexytimes (even if those sexytimes are otherwise disturbing/gross)! And it's also normal to NOT want to see the same stuff as an adult that you thought was a good read then.

In a blanket sense, I also don't think there's anything wrong with authors including scenes of younger characters exploring their sexuality, like... nine times out of ten I firmly believe those scenes come from the writer's memory of their own younger years, and not because that's what they get off on as an adult, and because in a blanket sense, sex is like a lot of other parts of life-- reading about stuff helps you deal with stuff in the future, whether it's reading about characters surviving difficult things, or learning about sex. Being able to safely explore things through fiction before you're ready to explore it in the real world. I know reading about stuff was a vital part of my own development, and also like... being able to read about fictional characters engaging in risky behavior meant I could have these vicarious experiences instead of going out and having sex, drinking, running away from home just for the hell of it... There's an age at which you find these books on your own and it's good for you (and that age differs from teen to teen). And the stories that I needed then are sometimes stories I would feel skeeved out by today, but I'm grateful I had them!

In the case of IT in particular, well, cocaine is a hell of a drug. Large swathes of that book got written in a haze and probably wouldn't be that way if it had been written sober.

[(Anonymous)]

Excellent post.

I haven't read It, but I've heard about that infamous scene in the book, I think your final sentence is pretty spot on, though.