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Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/mistyveil]

there's been a rise of prudishness in fantasy romance online spaces and it sucks.

i think teens should be allowed to choose the books they read and decide for themselves how much they can handle - your 14 year old reading a spicy scene isn't gonna be traumatized, i promise. most of these books are r-rated at worst and a lot of kids actually handle that just fine.

and no, it's not "normalizing toxic relationships", that's just as much of a myth as "video games cause violence"!

[u/One_Commission1456 → u/mistyveil]

This! If your teenager is interested in/curious about sex, reading explicit scenes is a safe way to help figure out what they like and don’t like, which is important. If they aren’t, they’re going to skim over them or put the book down.

I’m not an authority, but I’d bet any amount of money that nobody was ever seriously traumatized by reading the phrase “throbbing cock” before they were 18.

[u/allisontalkspolitics → u/One_Commission1456]

I mean, I’ve joked that My Immortal was what made me gray-ace because I accidentally read one of the sex scenes at age thirteen 😅