It was going to happen sooner or later, we all just hoped it wouldn't.
This was, in many ways, the type of situation that my research was trying to address so as you can imagine I am mentally trying to decide whether to add stuff into my thesis about it. I already have a side note about the problems of differentiating Romeo and Juliet (Juliet is 13) or The Satyricon ('on-page' sex scene with girl under 8) which are both readily available from Penguin Classics and something which might cause problems (or your journal deleted). It also emphasises questions about how we tag stories because the subjects being targeted are those people want to be warned for...
If it wasn't something I was involved in then it would be really interesting. Unfortunately, it is, so it sucks mightily.
I don't believe you have to read or write fic of any type to be in fandom. It is a personal thing - do I identify as being part of fandom? If yes and you support what they are doing then join, if not then don't :-)
Regarding classic novels vs sex involving minors in modern fiction, I think it's highly hypocritical to differentiate and that fiction should always be fair game for whatever people want to write and publish. Of course, in the current political climate, it's just not the way things work.
I think currently fiction that are physically published and fiction that is published on the Internet are being held to different standards. This might be because people believe that physically published works have had to go through more people (and their lawyers) so is (relatively) okay and safe whereas stuff people load on the Internet is suspect and unsafe and there to lead children astray. I think part of it is the control issue - people feel more comfy and in control when it comes to dead-tree books.
The most disturbing thing I ever read when I was too young to cope with it was a rape scene involving a lycanthropic cat, in a published book that otherwise would have been completely suitable for young teenagers. It was extremely violent and graphic, but by then I was two thirds of the way through the book and I always want to know the endings.
Granted, I was reading very dodgy stuff by then anyway, but it was too much and squicked me incredibly badly at the time. I don't think I've seen much online that beats some of the stuff I'd read in books by the time I was about 13; I think it's all fear of new technology that makes people believe that the internet is worse.
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I'm still fuming over the entire situation; ergo, an opp like this is exactly what the academic docs have ordered.
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This was, in many ways, the type of situation that my research was trying to address so as you can imagine I am mentally trying to decide whether to add stuff into my thesis about it. I already have a side note about the problems of differentiating Romeo and Juliet (Juliet is 13) or The Satyricon ('on-page' sex scene with girl under 8) which are both readily available from Penguin Classics and something which might cause problems (or your journal deleted). It also emphasises questions about how we tag stories because the subjects being targeted are those people want to be warned for...
If it wasn't something I was involved in then it would be really interesting. Unfortunately, it is, so it sucks mightily.
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Regarding classic novels vs sex involving minors in modern fiction, I think it's highly hypocritical to differentiate and that fiction should always be fair game for whatever people want to write and publish. Of course, in the current political climate, it's just not the way things work.
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Granted, I was reading very dodgy stuff by then anyway, but it was too much and squicked me incredibly badly at the time. I don't think I've seen much online that beats some of the stuff I'd read in books by the time I was about 13; I think it's all fear of new technology that makes people believe that the internet is worse.
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