(December 13, 2015 at 5:46 pm)Thena323 Wrote: If your novel is for young adults, I would avoid detailed sexual depictions. If it's for adult readers, and simply has a child the main protagonist, maybe? If it's not narrated from the child's POV, it should be okay.
The more illicit the sexual details, the shorter the overall length of the depiction/scene should be, is a good rule of thumb to follow if you don't want to that part of story to come off as pornographic.
That makes sense. I've taken your advice and replaced explicit references to body parts with more or less subtle allusions.
Cracked might still have something to say about some things and it's still not Judy Bloom, but it was never meant to be.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
