Honest sex scenes in books will stop teens learning from porn, Malorie Blackman says

The Telegraph ^ | 6/19/2013 | Hannah Furness

[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.

[The Grammarian]

And all this time I thought it led to dancing.

You've got it backwards. Dancing leads to sex--or so Martin Luther's Small Dictionary defined it. It defined dancing something like "An immoral activity that leads to premature pregnancy and a ruined reputation."

[Elsie]

In my prime I would have gone for 30 pages.

Papa; your REAL name wouldn't be TED; would it??

http://www.google.com/search?q=Teeny+Ted+from+Turnip+Town.&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-ContextMenu&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS475

[Elsie]

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.

HMMMmmm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ

[PapaBear3625]

No, I’m more ledger-sized

[GladesGuru]

“Never trust a GOPer who wants to fire all the teachers....”

That GOPer actually wanted to fire all the Libtard teachers.

I know, that is nearly all of them, but keep the Constitutionally aware, conservative teacher - all three of ‘em.

[central_va]

This one looks promising...

[driftless2]

There’s two types of home scenes that I dislike intensely while viewing a tv program or a movie. Those are the ones that have overly long sex scenes or the family dining scenes where people talk about so-called important topics while shoveling forkfuls of chow into their gaping maws. I find both disgusting. A typical love scene should last no longer than one minutes worth of viewing. Ditto for the family eating scenes.

[Elsie]

...while shoveling forkfuls of chow into their gaping maws.

Seems that ALL the fast food ads have some mannerless fool trying to gag himself on as much food as possible.

Disgusting indeed!

[Tax-chick]

That seems reasonable. The eating scene is something that works better in a book, because you’re reading the dialogue instead of watching people try to talk while chewing food.