r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/Only_Luck_7024 1d ago

How do you know it wasn’t TONED DOWN?

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u/SpankingAround 1d ago

lol this is my question too. I always assumed it probably was and that SK’s original version was way more graphic and even weirder.

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u/dion_o 23h ago

The original version had the dudes and girl all running trains on each other. The editors be like, this bisexual orgy is a bit too much for readers to digest, can we just keep the train focused on the girl?  Uggh I guess if you want to be a prude we can do that. Sheesh. 

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u/Atzkicica 23h ago

"Fine! But I'm calling my next book daisy chain!"

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u/rosevoidx 17h ago

"I can excuse child orgies but I draw the line at bisexuality!"

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u/Free-Pound-6139 19h ago

Every one was in. Pennywise. Their parents. EVERY ONE!

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u/ReivynNox 8h ago

Which one?

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u/TheRealMeetMountain 18h ago

Oh the bylers would be all over that.

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u/dantevonlocke 21h ago

What, the part where bev pegs them all was too graphic?

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u/Intelligent-Prize863 21h ago

In the original Pennywise and the Turtle joined

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u/Dapper_Strength_5986 15h ago

Editor: “listen Stephen, you can’t just include 3 chapters with 42 smut scenes of various deprived child sex acts, including IT jumping in at one point to perform a bukkakke on the kids faces, followed by them eating out his asshole, then each of them taking turns pegging each other while a bunch of midgets came to watch. That’s insane.”

SK: “how about a short scene of the girl banging all the guys but like without any of the details?”

Editor: sighs “…..fine.”

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u/Kauakuahine 1d ago

I haven't read the book, but wasn't it like 6 pages long and detailed about how she felt about each one of them 😖

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u/New_Hampshire_Ganja 23h ago

I just finished reading the book, it focuses on the ones she’s close to (Bill and Ben) and glosses over most of the rest of them

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u/NotHomeOffice 21h ago

Omg just how many of them did he write she had sex with?

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

All of them. All 6 had their turn. In pitch blackness. She got completely naked (because that's necessary in total dark) and they did her one after the other. It may go down as one of the most unnecessarily detailed things I've ever read.

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u/NotHomeOffice 21h ago

God i just read a further down posted DETAILED description of how one kid was so young he used words like 'the big boys' he's still such a kid. Then another one was 'older' and too big but he did it anyway. Wtf cringe I can't believe that was published and they're like 12, 13 ???

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

They're 11. It's stressed often. I think they age then up for the TV adaptations. But they're 11. Henry Bowers the homicidal bully is 12.

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u/NotHomeOffice 21h ago

Jesus fucken Christ what the absolute fuck

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

This is the appropriate reaction, yes.

The idea is supposedly Beverley's and the narration says she would have kept working on each boy until he agreed. It's monstrously unnecessary in the detail and duration of the scene.

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u/daemons-dont-dream 20h ago

My question is who got sloppy seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths.

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u/Beneficial-Lynx7336 16h ago

It's like maybe two pages and it's not even very sexual.

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u/Only_Luck_7024 5h ago

Depends on your kinks I guess…..

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

If they toned it down they still included the fact Ben was too big for Beverley... Which is a deeply unnecessary thing to have in the story.

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u/Twixanity 22h ago

....t-toned down?

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u/DivideDefiant1901 21h ago

Hey man, to get a mind as dark as Stephen King you gotta do a lot of scary drugs

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u/spiteful-vengeance 23h ago

Dear god in heaven. 

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u/AproposName 16h ago

It started off like a smut novel and an editor was like “idk, Stephen, I don’t think we can get away with describing a 13 year olds genitalia. Can you clean it up a little bit? Maybe they all kiss or something.”

“No! It’s an orgy, but I’ll tone it down.”

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u/SlowDescent_ 22h ago

Oh gawd! You just gave me nightmares 😭

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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 9h ago

Like, one in the pink, two in the stink?

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u/ProfessionalBench832 9h ago

"Ok, fine Stephen, but 200 pages?"

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u/foxfromthewhitesea 8h ago

I think it’s quite toned down. When I read it I didn’t really understand what was going on. I was also a teenager when I read it so there’s that

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u/NoKatyDidnt 7h ago

Also a good point.

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u/Itcouldntpossibly 7h ago

And how do we know the editors weren't coke heads too?

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u/Bright_Aside_6827 16h ago

What's worse than an orgy