12 and 14 year olds reading young adult books with sexual content

[Anonymous]

I would rather my kid be reading romances than acting out on them. Since I used to read pretty explicit stuff in junior high and was still fine, I would be with my kid as long as it's not something disturbing.

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Anonymous wrote:I read all of my mother's Harold Robbins' books around 12. They were so entertaining. My mother never said a word.

And Jackie Collins!

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Anonymous wrote:(as an aside, wow, PP, I'm impressed by your sophistication, and ability to hide the spoilers and yet make them legible if we are curious. I have no idea how that is done. (But I'm a luddite)

It's really easy, actually, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to do it. Before the spoiler, you type [color = white] and at the end of the text you want to hide you type [/ color] but you need to remove the spaces between the words and symbols, so when you do it for real it looks like [word1=word2] spoiler text [/word1]. Substitute the word color for word1 and the name of the color you want the text to be for word2.

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Anonymous wrote:I read Lolita at that age, not to mention several Robert Heinlein and Efraim Sevela books featuring adult men with 13-year-old girls. Talk about inappropriate. I turned out fine.

I read Lolita, also at age 12.

Not certain that I have turned out fine...trying.

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Anonymous wrote:As my very brilliant, super intellectual, read anything-he-could-get-his-hands-on, physician grandfather said to my mother back in the 80's when I was a teenager. "No one turns into a bad kid from reading books".

I like this quote.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(as an aside, wow, PP, I'm impressed by your sophistication, and ability to hide the spoilers and yet make them legible if we are curious. I have no idea how that is done. (But I'm a luddite)

It's really easy, actually, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to do it. Before the spoiler, you type [color = white] and at the end of the text you want to hide you type [/ color] but you need to remove the spaces between the words and symbols, so when you do it for real it looks like [word1=word2] spoiler text [/word1]. Substitute the word color for word1 and the name of the color you want the text to be for word2.

Wow!! I am so impressed. I've never seen that before. So cool.