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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That book Lawn Boy[/quote]

But why?  It has great and deep things, with lines like “ What if I told you I touched another guy’s dick?” I said. … “What if I told you I sucked it?” … “I was ten years old, but it’s true. I put Doug Goble’s dick in my mouth.”[/quote]

We all know why people want to normalize this content for 10 year olds.[/quote]

Not Lawn Boy again.

1) [b]This book is not intended for 10-year-olds[/b]. No one is advocating for this book to be marketed to or suggested to 10-year-olds. The main character is an ADULT talking about something that happened to him AS a 10-year-old. The character has a difficult history, which he has not healed from. The character is trying to shock the character he's talking to, so he says it in a shocking way (and although this kind of thing DOES happen to more kids than we'd like to think, it IS shocking) but not a titillating or "sexy" way. No one who reads this scene in context and good faith could possibly honestly believe that the author is... what, trying to get 10-year-olds (who the book is not intended for) to have oral sex? Because he gets off on that or something?  Is that what the "we all know why" statement is supposed to imply?
2) Depiction is discussion, not approval or normalization. The character talking abouts something does not mean the author is advocating for it. Many, many books depict a character talking about something inappropriate or harmful without people assuming that the AUTHOR is in favor of the harmful thing being discussed. This is basic literacy.

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