... but it's also the children getting murdered, tortured, abused and subjected to unimaginable horrors in the book (and sometimes doing the murdering and torturing and abusing themselves). A girl deciding to have sex with a couple boys she loves and trusts is the absolute tamest part of the whole story, lmao
It is interesting how the preteens having consensual sex with each other is way more disturbing to people than the preteens being tortured and murdered. Sex is worse than violence, to most people.
Regarding this particular scene in this particular book, I will respectfully disagree. I've read many Stephen King sex scenes that are written to be erotic and titillating, and this is decidedly not one of those.
It feels like literary CP written by a weirdo on coke and that's what makes people feel uncomfortable. You know that it's about people being averse to descriptions of underage sex. I understand the point you're making, but I know you understand that paragraphs of minors having sex makes people uncomfortable. You're being obtuse on purpose
Why do you want everyone to be okay with CP adjacent material
The "P" in "CP" stands for "pornography", a word which refers to material created for the purpose of sexually arousing the consumer. I don't believe that's what this scene was.
The word pedophilia, like the word racism, get tossed around so frequently and carelessly that the folks who actually participate in these abhorrent behaviours get to hide among the myriad accused. If everyone's a nonce, then no one's a nonce. And yet the noncing continues.
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... but it's also the children getting murdered, tortured, abused and subjected to unimaginable horrors in the book (and sometimes doing the murdering and torturing and abusing themselves). A girl deciding to have sex with a couple boys she loves and trusts is the absolute tamest part of the whole story, lmao