Comment on My father the tween literary critic

• TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A book that I got as part of a birthday present when I was in middle school had a passage where a man’s long-lost sister (who was part monster, but was painstakingly described as very attractive) told him that either he had to impregnate her the old-fashioned way, or she would simply get a syringe, extract sperm from his testicles, and impregnate herself that way to create, if I remember correctly, a monster that would end the world or something. It was labeled as “Young Adult” level.

  So, like, probably something like that.

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  • DanVctr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You just gave someone a new fetish.

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• Admax@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good old “don’t judge a book by its cover”

  Some books have names that don’t evocate much, a tame cover and end up being smut books. Quick search brings up “Normal people”. Unassuming title and cover, you might guess romance, but quoting an article mentioning it “The sex scenes in this one really do jump off the page”.
  You might not want your 10-13 y/o reading about that just yet…

  Some other might have toxic ideas, graphic depiction of violence, or lots of things you might want a teen to not read just yet.

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  • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also there are way to many violent sex scenes in dark romance books, for kids who are just starting to grasp what sec can be. Nothing wrong with people liking brutal sex, but that’s not beginner level friendly and might set wrong expectations.

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  • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read Tatham Mound when I was 12, and it kind of blew my mind. I wouldn’t say it was appropriate at that age, but I also don’t think it did any harm. The violence was explicit, and there were numerous sex scenes, but they were placed in a cultural context.

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• justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was specifically thinking of books with sexual violence, suicide, or promoting toxic behavior, and even then it does go down to the book’s context.

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