posted by: Dave (reply)
post date: 07.25.05 (4:09 pm)
I was shit-scared in my early teens by G K Chesterton. Got halfway through a collection of Father Brown then managed to stop myself cause I was having too many nightmares.
And, hey, as for porn, I'm sure most kids have flicked through books looking for the sex scenes ('The Great Gatenby' by John Marsden, for me). Don't know if that makes it OK, but I'd rather encourage curiosity than discourage it.
Yes, but there is healthy porn and unhealthy porn (I think I'll blog about that later...). Hamilton writes unhealthy nightmare porn (I'm referring to the Anita Blake novels - I have not read the Meredith Gentry stories). I have nothing against teens reading erotica (I liked Anais Nin as a teenager, and read Frank Harris), but you need maturity and knowledge about healthy sex before you start reading about sex with and between werewolves, vampires and other horror creatures, especially when death and torture are involved in it as well.
I understand your fear of Chesterton - some of the darker stories would probably have scared me as well during my early nyctophobic teens.
posted by: Kris (reply)
post date: 09.04.05 (6:57 am)
Since im a teenager, I would like say that ive read all of Laurell K. Hamilton books not for the porn, but because i need just something else that catches my eyes, and Hamilton's writings is really good. But I do have to say that the 12th Anita Blake book has to much porn scenes in it. And when I was looking for the book on B&N people that had reviewed on it had said the exact same thing. But I didnt find this in the teen's section, was in the Fantasy side.
Yeah, she does write good story. Teens who have the maturity to read the Anita Blake books without getting nightmares or funny ideas about sex will enjoy reading them, especially the first books in the series (I felt the quality started declining after The Killing Dance). My objection to offering them to teens as suitable reading material is mostly that many teens (like children) have a problem separating fiction from reality (like the 18 year old a friend of mine spoke to who thought Girl With A Pearl Earring was a true story) . Reading about nightmarish sex at an age when our sexual identity is developing fast can affect our psychological sexual development.
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