Posted on 06/19/2013 1:53:30 AM PDT by markomalley
Malorie Blackman, the newly-appointed children’s laureate and writer of teenage fiction, said youngsters ought to read about sex within the safe confines of a book rather than through “innuendo and porn”.
She told the Telegraph giving children challenging themes would allow them to process it within a “safe” context rather than turning to damaging and “brutalising” images.
Her arguments were echoed by author and Carnegie Medal-winner Melvin Burgess, who said there should be “no actual limits” to the subjects covered in teenage fiction.
Blackman, author of Pig Heart Boy, Noble Conflict and the Naughts and Crosses series, said it was important to remember teenagers would get their information “from somewhere”.
“The thing about it is that if you have books for teenagers, you present these ideas within a kind of safe setting,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Joan Hess’s plots include incidents of sexual activity, but they’re not detailed ... more like a tv program in which the characters walk into a bedroom and then *fade*.
Speak for yourself. In my prime I would have gone for 30 pages.
Based on some of responses to your post....I never know FR had so many former male porn stars....!
Gonna be a mighty thin book.
She didn’t say explicit sex scenes...just sex scenes. If I had to, I’d prefer writing scenes like you described...two people walking into a room and later walking out with a glow on their faces. Leave it to the readers imaginations.
re: “No man lasts 14 pages. . .”
Correct! Check out this video by Flight of the Conchords (a spoof rock band) on this Youtube video “Business Time”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZcYPEszN8
It’s incredibly naive to think that teenage boys aren’t going to access porn over the Internet. Especially when so much of it is free. At least, when I was growing up, you had to make an effort to get Playboy or Penthouse. Now you get full length videos with the click of a mouse.
And, no, they won’t be truthful when asked if they’re 18.
It would depend on your plot. If you have characters who are a married couple who live together, it's kind of understood that they have sex, especially if there are children. You could easily have occasions when they go to bed together at night and smile affectionately at one another in the morning.
As a reader of both mystery novels and romances, I much prefer this to more detailed descriptions of what people are actually doing with their body parts. The romances I like are about people's falling in love and getting to the point of marriage, not about what they do once they're married.
LOL!!
I think she may be a Brit.
"Twit" is spelled with a "T" and a "W" instead of a "B" and a "R"
The popular Twilight series has a scene where the guy gives the girl a C~section by tearing her stomach open with his teeth and young girls love that horrid series.
The popular Twilight series has a scene where the guy gives the girl a C~section by tearing her stomach open with his teeth and young girls love that horrid series.
What an idiot.
“In real life your normal sex scene would be all of 1/3 of a book page...”
Not if it started “He kissed her warmly. Her inviting arms lured him so seductively that he went to the bathroom and took a Viagra”.
If we’re going to have “honest sex scenes”, then there should be honest depictions of abortions, venereal disease, and raising babies to go with it.
I expect that's not the part they like.
This really gave me a laugh. About twenty three years ago when I worked at our little town library I remember the older ladies checking out the paperback “romance” novels. This was when you had to sign the card to check out the book. Some of these gals would check out ten books a week. I looked at a couple and honestly they were all the same. How in the world can there be anything interesting in hundreds of books with the same theme.
“and ll this time I thought it lead to dancing”
Dang I think you’re right!
Now would they kid us or what?
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