Thanks, dear...glad you enjoyed it. I'm always worried with this one because I have to set the right balance or Sean seems a little pervy so I have to set the right cord that the feelings are there but Sean either doesn't really realize what's happening or now that he doesn't want it to happen.
And that these are feelings he's just having for Orlando who's been an important part of his life for 11 years, not just some random 15 year old standing on a street corner. If that makes any sense.
Anyway I'm glad the right balance is being achieved even if it does still feel slightly wrong to be writing it... :-P
I don't think it's pervy at all, actually. Orlando's old enough in this story that it's perfectly normal and natural for someone to be sexually attracted to him; secondary sex characteristics are Nature's way of saying, "Hey, this one's ready, come make babies!" (Or whatever, in the case of someone who's gay.) Our society delays reproduction for social reasons, and they're good reasons given the complexity of our cultures, but the physical impulses are still there and they're still natural. What's wrong or "pervy" is actually doing something about those urges. It's the behavior which is "right" or "wrong" when dealing with someone who's not of legal age but is post-pubescent, not the feelings or the thoughts. Trying to tell someone feeling a perfectly natural physical or emotional impulse that they're wrong or evil or sick is pointless and counter-productive. The evil and sick ones are the people who try to act on those impulses with a person who isn't yet old enough to have gotten a firm grasp on the long-term consequences and
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Oh I know that it's totally a societial (I don't think that's a real word but whatever... *snerks) feeling and that as far as nature is concerned you're ready when you're sexually mature and that in the past a fifteen year old might have been in the process of being married or in some cases married already and that there are still some cultures out there where this is still the case. And that the age difference in some of those marriages is a lot bigger in some cases than 20 years
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I didn't think you did, seriously, or you wouldn't be writing this. I was more assuming you were concerned about audience reaction and wanted to explain what I think and why. :)
But there are folks around who go all angry/hysterical at the thought of anyone overage feeling the least bit of sexual attraction toward anyone underage, which IMO is just ridiculous. What's particularly stupid (and yes, there's a lot of this in HP fandom) is when the adult POV character has absolutely No Sexual Feelings Whatsoever toward the underage character, but while attending his/her eighteenth birthday party -- ching! -- suddenly realize that OMG this person is HOT!!! Umm, right. [sigh]
One has to wonder whether the adult's feelings would flick on and off like a lightswitch if they were in a car with the underage person, driving back and forth across the border of two countries which had different ages of consent. :P
OMG I hate that. The kid doesn't look any different at 17 5 minutes before midnight than they did at 18 5 minutes after midnight. *shakes head* Yeah there's some really good Potter fic out there but you have to dig through a lot of crap to find it...part of the reason I only delve into it once a year or so when the new book/movie comes out.
I liked this one very much. Poor Sean -- I feel sorry for him, but all the feelings roiling up inside him are very sweet. :)
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And that these are feelings he's just having for Orlando who's been an important part of his life for 11 years, not just some random 15 year old standing on a street corner. If that makes any sense.
Anyway I'm glad the right balance is being achieved even if it does still feel slightly wrong to be writing it... :-P
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But there are folks around who go all angry/hysterical at the thought of anyone overage feeling the least bit of sexual attraction toward anyone underage, which IMO is just ridiculous. What's particularly stupid (and yes, there's a lot of this in HP fandom) is when the adult POV character has absolutely No Sexual Feelings Whatsoever toward the underage character, but while attending his/her eighteenth birthday party -- ching! -- suddenly realize that OMG this person is HOT!!! Umm, right. [sigh]
One has to wonder whether the adult's feelings would flick on and off like a lightswitch if they were in a car with the underage person, driving back and forth across the border of two countries which had different ages of consent. :P
Angie
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