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kityone t1_je31dlc wrote

When I was 14 my mum gave me a fantasy novel called Tender Morsels. In the first few chapters of the book the main character (who is around 15 at the time) is raped twice, once by her father and the second by a group of village teenagers. And she gets pregnant both times. My mum had no idea what kind of book she'd given me. Oh, and I read the whole thing anyway lol.

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LaneLaneyLane t1_je44uz5 wrote

Haha. I read IT when I was 13ish and was not expecting the fucked up sexual content of that book. (Except to be honest it didn’t really affect me at all.) there’s also plenty of books for 10 year old that 7 year olds read full of murder and fucked up things. I reckon the kid is fine. If I was the sister I would have made sure the kid was okay and laughed it off.

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kityone t1_je4n23o wrote

I think reading that stuff as a kid did desensitize me to sexual content in fiction. But didn't affect me in real life circumstances. Same probably goes for the kid, heaps of books, shows and games feature death, doesn't mean he's suddenly going to turn violent, just means he'll get used to seeing that stuff in fiction.

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