Jysin
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Marriage and the Power of Divorce
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lindz
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Oh there is no description of anything. Mentions of nude photos and pornography, no details. YA covers pretty mature topics these days with contemporary pieces. Rape, sex, suicide and abuse are all common topics. It is really about how it is handled.
Regardless, this is a weird place for this thread to go!
This is why I have to check into all the "YA" my kids read I guess. Thanks for that.
chaos
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Vandyn
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This is a serious question but are your needs only met with sex? Meaning does he show affection to you in other ways or do you not care as much about that stuff? A lot of times when something significant (like sex) changes, there are other little things that also change that are often missed because of the focus on the main thing. As everyone says, the best remedy is always communication. Nothing worse than playing guessing games trying to figure out if something is wrong.
iannis
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Sometimes the way that authors sanitize the content for a YA story is what makes it worth reading as an OA. There is a spectrum of hilarious and fucked up but not objectionably fucked up. I think a lot of them do anticipate and expect that the parents are going to be reading these books over their childrens shoulders so they'll drop in little nudges and winks here and there. That's just good storytelling as well as being good business.
Nope people like Lindz know that there is no rating for books and you can pretty much do you want and that parents are lazy.
Write a book with just enough taboo to not be taken off the shelves but just enough that girls will hide it under their pillow and gossip about it. Parents that actually pay attention to the media of all kinds that their kids consume are prudes and/or privacy invaders and shouldn't be in the lives of their kids that much.
iannis
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It seems to me that you should read what your children read. 8-14 or so. The age where they're starting to differentiate. Before that you directly control it, and after that theres no purpose in it. I don't mean reading their diaries and shit. Which, I'm no expert, but children are not that complex. They have no real secrets. They haven't learned how to keep them yet.
That just seems like part of the whole thing. You also check their internet history and you judge if they're clever enough to selectively delete entries. You can't protect them from the world but you don't need to bluewaffle them when they're 7, either.
That just seems like part of the whole thing. You also check their internet history and you judge if they're clever enough to selectively delete entries. You can't protect them from the world but you don't need to bluewaffle them when they're 7, either.
Finally something that will get me going like 50 shades gets women going. HALLELUJAH
Gavinmad
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I was like 8 or 9 when I read Nine Princes in Amber. I was actually too young to understand that Corwin and Moire had sex until I read it again when I was older, but I definitely picked up on the machiavellian intrigue and murder plots between family members. Probably not the best book for an autistic kid to have read during his formative years.
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I did this with my dad. Well... not quite. He didn't read what I read, I read what he read. That is, mostly Playboy. I still remember the Kimberley Konrad Heffner special edition. Reading Playboys when you're 8-14 does actually explain a lot about why I am the way I am now in my mid 30s. Thanks dad!
... I think.
Noodleface
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Sorry to derail this, but what's wrong Gravy? Those were either the two most depressing posts I've read all day or I read them in a depressing tone for no reason.