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wow. that

fandom_scruples thing is the !!!!!!!!!! ever. wow. And you can't even leave comments any more. just. gah.
My take on the whole thing is quite firmly on the "parents are responsible for their children" side of the fence. Because
1) some children/teens are mature enough to read/deal with that sort of thing and it is up to them and their parents to decide that, not the world/internet at large,

2) I have a big problem with people telling me what is best for teen!me and my theoretical offspring and,

3) (is actually a reiteration of 1&2) get off your high horse and live and let live. If you feel the need to do something, do it. For all I care, say that you think other people should do it. But when you start pointing fingers and making 'black lists' and 'gold lists' and generally trying to bend people to your will, it annoys me (and apparently everyone else) so go away and take your precious ideals with you. People can, believe it or not, make decisions for themselves. When I was underage, I certainly made the choice to read explicit stories. Had my parents been watching, they certainly would have had something to say about that. But they were not. So it was up to me, I made that choice, and I live with the consequences. Which include enjoying some well-written smut and notbeing scarred for life.

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hmmm, anything else. Ohohoh! Someone somewhere (yeah, that's real specific) posted more of lance-in-kilt pictures and I was mesmerized for several minutes by his hands in the first couple. hands! holding things! hands!

mmmmyeah. thats all.

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*snerk* My parents tossed me a copy of Jaws when I was fifteen and said "here, it's even better than the movie." What they didn't tell me was that the Sherrif's wife and the oceanographer have a one day affair and that the book goes a lot further than "And then they had sex."

No one keeps teenagers out of Barnes and Noble and as far as I have ever seen the "Best Erotica" collections aren't hidden on shelves that teenagers can't reach to browse in the store. Not to mention the fact that most Harlequin romances now a days are as explicit as a lot of fanfic.

So yeah. I defintely don't think it's my responsibility to shelter other people's kids from erotic writing.

the book goes a lot further than "And then they had sex."
nice! My mother signed a card that let me check out 'adult only' books from the library at some point. That meant I could get any book I wanted. And I did.

The whole 'protect under aged from sex' thing really irks me in the same way abstinence-only sex ed irks me. A lack of information is worse than too much, in my opinion. And not that I equate smutty fic exactly with sex ed, but it is information, in its own way. If you're going to start a crusade about something involving sex and the under aged, why don't you make a point of educating kids about sex and what exactly it entails instead of freaking out over whether or not they can access fanfiction that may or may not involve sex? And do people think kids are dumb? If they want something, they usually figure out how to get it. And it's not as though turning 18 magically makes you capable of dealing with sex. In fact, chances are good that you've already had to deal with it a whole lot already. bah.

The bookstore point is a really good one. They've got pretty much everything right there for anyone to pick up.

It's such a case by case sort of thing. And people are so odd in what they fixate on to freak out about.

heh. And that got a bit longer than I thought it would. oops.