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Drusas@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

There is just no way to talk about, write about, discuss, etc, stuff like that, without the air in the room not going still as fuck.

I don't think that's true at all. I think there are a lot of people out there who could discuss it, but that requires a significant degree of emotional maturity and there are too many people who can't step back and be open to discussing things that make them uncomfortable.

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riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Sure. People can have a mature discussion about real life events. But when you make fantasy stories about children having sex that’s a fantasy.

You’re making a fantasy. You’re writing characters In a fantasy world and having them do this very inappropriate thing. And what makes it weirder is that the writer isn’t a child, he’s an old man. It’s creepy.

And isn’t that supposed to be the not creepy part of the book?

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DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mate, where are you going with this? Aldous Huxely erotic play for children? I think you’re missing the point. It’s not a discussion because the fallacy purported by the writer was to give 12 year olds emotions, desires, and mental processes that they simply have not yet developed. Beverly, the twelve year old girl, wouldn’t think to have sex with her friends to comfort them. Full stop. That’s the writer putting these emotions where they simply wouldn’t exist. And. Creepy.

It’s not maturity. Maturity is knowing that twelve year olds don’t reason that way.

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- DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well, she would, because she’s a child sexual abuse survivor and it’s a hypersexualization thing and a result of how she’s been told things work.
  
  Still fucked up to type that out and have not come editor say “Are you doing okay, Stevie?”
  
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  - Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    You know the story isn’t real, and any “explanation” that makes it seem logical is purely designed by the author, right? She didn’t survive anything. King wrote a stroy about a sexual assault survivor and wrote this into it. He could have chosen literally anything else.
    
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- honurash@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There are plenty of people who are abused at a young age that come to associate sex with giving comfort or thinking its the only way they can help others.
  
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  - riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Sure.
    
    There’s also choosing to put that into a book. Choosing to put that in a story. Thinking about the psychology of a sexually abused child and thinking “this would go well into my book.”
    
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- IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  i definitely knew about sex by 12
  
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  - deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Same? Like does no one remember being 12, or did they just block it out?
    
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