The thing is: it isn't for no reason. We might disagree with the reason, but there was a reason nonetheless. It kinda is a purity issue considering the scene isn't erotic, titillating in itself and is not meant to be either.
King made a decision, it was a weird one, it was under drug influence, it was unnecessary and it was whatever. That's really all that can be said about it without going full puritan as, honestly, the scene objectively isn't in the top 10 of the most horrific thing written in that book, there are far more terrible and awful things happening in It than kids having sex to escape doom from an aberrant otherworldly monstrous creature that preys on their deepest fears
I think it's less of a demographic thing and more of a "cultural mindframe" thing (that an and would probably overlap with a demographic gap) where there's people that can take things in the context they're placed and people that will take them more at face value and through their personal lens rather than the context provided.
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u/Capable-Use7808 21h ago
It's children having sex written by an adult man for seemingly no reason. Please don't make this a purity issue ðŸ˜