But the children, who will protect the children?!

[mandragora]

Prompted by the emergence of fandom_scruples.

*Absolutely* we should protect the children from anything that might sully their darling little eyes. And ears.

I mean, look at me. All those Greek myths from the age of 5 onwards. Graduating to *gasp* Georgette Heyer at around age 10 or 11. And let's not mention when I was 13 and was the purveyor of smut in school. All those Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins I had stashed away in my school bag. (And if I'd known then about slash you can be damn sure I'd have had a stash of slash ready to hand out like smarties, too).

So, take my experience as a horrible learning lesson, oh children. Because, yes, it could happen to you too. After reading copious amounts of smut whilst underage you too could grow up to become... a lawyer!

The horror, the horror...

Comments

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

The best Sekrit Porn I had as a kid was in a Richard Adams book. He wrote a veeeeeery long fantasy novel, the name of which I've completely forgotten, where (in my hazy imagination) the heroine spends a lot of the book as a sex slave.

Oooh I know that one. I have it somewhere, although it's at my parents' house. And the heroine was a sex slave of sorts. She was a Gorgeous Peasant Girl, as I recall, who ended up as a slave. Can't remember the details now, save that the book wasn't very good.

Yes, the Dune books did have a few steamy pages. The Gor books (I was *young*, okay) had a lot more.

I think it's only HP fandom where incest is automatically bad ;)

[manna]

The big advantage of Maia (thanks, Tem) and the Dune books was that they were respectable fantasy and SF, therefore could be perused at will.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

What, so are you saying that the Gor books weren't respectable? Hey, they were fantasy. Sort of. ;)

[manna]

What, so are you saying that the Gor books weren't respectable?

Have you ever read John Norman's book about sexual fantasies? It's, well...definitely educational. Also very, very, very funny, in a way that I'm sure he never meant it to be. And, with it all, bizarrely sweet.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read John Norman's book about sexual fantasies?

God no. Reading the Gor books was emough.

Also very, very, very funny, in a way that I'm sure he never meant it to be.

Giggle. Why am I not surprised? Given his views as to sexuality (there seems to be no room for any of the multiplicity of human expression in his little universe), that is.