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.
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Date: 2004-01-14 10:41 pm (UTC)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.