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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read a lot of Mary Renault when I was quite young.  I remember finding it disturbing, but the plots were so compelling that I kept reading.  Frankly, I think it made me less likely to experiment sexually.  It made it all seem rather sordid to my young mind.[/quote]

+1.  I was a voracious reader whose parents never limited what I read. We had a huge library at home, full of 'inappropriate' books and so I read a lot of books as a child that make the Sarah J. Maas book referred to by OP seem like a sermon - for example, I read The Golden Ass at 8. It is a "Roman classic" so I don't think my parents would have thought anything of it even if they paid attention to which books I read. Yet it had explicit bestiality, gruesome sexual torture and other similar stuff. I am a well-adjusted adult with a good job, a happy married life and no history of teen promiscuity or other inappropriate behavior.

Just like the above PP, the sex stuff in the books I read made it all seem so sordid. That, or completely went over my head.

If someone did try to keep me from a book, I'd have probably smuggled it to read under my covers. [/quote]

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