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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Books have changed along with the culture. Many--maybe not all--of the books that were considered too "old" when we were 10 or 12 or 14 seem relatively tame today. I don't think reading "The Thorn Birds" as a 13-year-old is really in the same category as reading "A Court of Thorn and Roses" as a 10-year-old.[/quote]

Evidently you didn't read the rape-ier parts of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey.

Incidentally, did I take any notice of those parts, when I was an eleven-year-old reading those books? Nope. I skipped right over them without notice. I was reading for the plot.[/quote]

Yeah, I was reading Clan of the Cave Bear at 10, and didn't really think too much of it.  When my mom realized, years later, she was horrified, but I wasn't harmed by it.  Certainly, children are "older" now than when we were young, so maybe OP's DD is "getting" more of these books than I would have, but that still doesn't seem like a problem, just different.  What kids get out of books is what they are ready for.  [/quote]

Same here.  Logically, I knew it was sex, but I didn't get the connotation that it was rape because Ayla didn't have a choice, wasn't really mature enough for it, wasn't prepared mentally, etc.[/quote]

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