Kid reading sexually graphic writing

[Anonymous]

Which Icebreaker is it? There are a few books by that title (asking for me)

[Anonymous]

So this book is the Cutting Edge?

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Anonymous wrote:Not to hijack the discussion but what age would it be okay to allow my DS to read Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? He found it on the shelf and started reading it. He is 14. I said he is too young. Thoughts?

No. Graphic rape incident.

I’m generally anti-censorship, but I had a really hard time as an adult with the graphic rape as well, and would at least talk to him before he gets there. I’d say 16+

Yup. It is a tough read for any age.

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Anonymous wrote:So my 7th grader, who has struggled in reading, how started reading romance novels. No problem, right?! Except there’s now a book (and it isn’t the first one, being traded around school-think it’s gone viral on tiktok) and it has very sexually graphic scenes in it. It’s otherwise just a regular love story as far as I can tell. I remember passing around contraband too (anyone remember Wifey lol) but I was an older teen. Mine is 13.

Would you let it go? Btdt? How to handle?

Name the book/author.

Not my kid, but if you want another example I'm a teacher and a sixth grader walked into my class with various books from the "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series. I asked where she got them, and she said her mom took her to the library. I was very uncomfortable by 11 year olds reading novels that I would deem "not-safe-for-work" at school, but hey... to each family their own!?

Yeah no. You dont get to raise issues about inappropriate reading material in school. You all rallied around it so yeah you don’t get to uncomfortable or have any issues with it. And I am not being sarcastic.

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Anonymous wrote:Huh. I had no idea hockey romance was such a thriving literary subgenre.

Gay fanfic about real world NHL players is a very popular read among some of my female friends. I don't claim to understand it, but I'm a straight man.

Crosby/Malkin LOL. Yes, it’s a huge thing, although I have no idea how NHL became THE sports fandom for RPF.

My daughter loves hockey!

It’s one of the four main US sports so I guess everyone knows it. I wonder if the book uses stereotypes of hockey players. I dated hockey players in college. They were not aggressive at all, not the brightest students either. But there’s stereotypes about them fighting a lot and sexually assaulting girls.

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Anonymous wrote:If your 7th grader has a phone he has watched plenty of porn.

Exactly this. You all handing phones to little kids but censoring their reading?!?!

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This book?
https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/1313q51/icebreakerwtf_did_i_just_read_a_rant/

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my 7th grader, who has struggled in reading, how started reading romance novels. No problem, right?! Except there’s now a book (and it isn’t the first one, being traded around school-think it’s gone viral on tiktok) and it has very sexually graphic scenes in it. It’s otherwise just a regular love story as far as I can tell. I remember passing around contraband too (anyone remember Wifey lol) but I was an older teen. Mine is 13.

Would you let it go? Btdt? How to handle?

Name the book/author.

Not my kid, but if you want another example I'm a teacher and a sixth grader walked into my class with various books from the "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series. I asked where she got them, and she said her mom took her to the library. I was very uncomfortable by 11 year olds reading novels that I would deem "not-safe-for-work" at school, but hey... to each family their own!?

Yeah no. You dont get to raise issues about inappropriate reading material in school. You all rallied around it so yeah you don’t get to uncomfortable or have any issues with it. And I am not being sarcastic.

It’s all fun and games until it turns from books about trans kids (so feel good! So inspiring!) to lowbrow romance smut LOL.

[Anonymous]

I started reading harlequin romance novels at 11-12. I discovered the sex scenes made me feel a new feeling, and I still read them for at purpose now at 40…

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Anonymous wrote:This book?
https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/1313q51/icebreakerwtf_did_i_just_read_a_rant/

They are being super nitpicking. I liked it.

https://www.romance.io/series/64221ca3d674ecd075fa877f/maple-hills

You can check out the spicy level here. 3 flames and under are appropriate for MSers. 4 flames you are getting into more explicit details, but probably still fine. (Like many of us reading racy stuff as adolescence) 5 flames is probably too much- lots of kink.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61767292

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Yep I also went through VC Andrews as well but I don’t remember doing it at 12//13!

I'm 52 and we were definitely reading VC Andrews in 7th grade!

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Let it go. I read that stuff at 13. I was a complete nerd and kissed like one guy in high school lol. Reading about it actually probably kept me from expanding my curiosity to real life situations.

[Anonymous]

I liked at the sample on Libby. Usually you don't get to the spicy stuff in the sample but they throw some in there right away. What happened to slow build?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my 7th grader, who has struggled in reading, how started reading romance novels. No problem, right?! Except there’s now a book (and it isn’t the first one, being traded around school-think it’s gone viral on tiktok) and it has very sexually graphic scenes in it. It’s otherwise just a regular love story as far as I can tell. I remember passing around contraband too (anyone remember Wifey lol) but I was an older teen. Mine is 13.

Would you let it go? Btdt? How to handle?

Name the book/author.

Book banner urgently wants to do some "research".

I was thinking mom got a toy and needs to take it for a test run.

[Anonymous]

If it is only descriptive writing, I do not see any problem here.

Many youth eventually discover the site literatica.com and read about s*x there.