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hangingfire ([info]hangingfire) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-02-05 13:12:00


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Current music:They Might Be Giants, "The End of the Tour"

Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?!
I come bearing more Lede wank. Today, the Lede posts about how the kids of today are getting an eyeful of pr0n online:

It will probably come as no surprise to most Internet users that a new survey, published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics (an abstract is available here), found that nearly half of all young people reported exposure, intentional or otherwise, to online pornography.

Forty-two percent of the 1,500 youngsters (ages 10 to 17) who were surveyed by telephone between March and June 2006 reported such exposure. Two-thirds of those who were exposed said the exposure was “unwanted,” according to the study; the exposure occurred most often when using file-sharing programs to download images.
The very first poster in the comment thread brings the wank:
This problem would be easy to solve if mom’s behaved like moms by taking proper care of their children. Children need close parental supervision, particularly maternal, all the way through high school. They don’t get it when mom’s off working full time and returning home so tired she just wants to chill out.
And they're off!
Wow Mark- You sure feel threatened by working women… “Beats me why women think having a career is such a big deal”… How stupid are you? Your question is the same a women asking men why we need to have a career? Why don’t you stay at home and take care of kids?
And that's just the beginning.


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[info]lyppy
2007-02-06 02:33 am UTC (link)
Porn?

I thought it was called Young Adult fiction. I thought I was reading a thick book about King Arthur and then OMG WHY ARE GWEN AND LANCELOT AND ARTHUR HAVING A THREESOME?

Freakin' Mists of Avalon.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 03:32 am UTC (link)
If I'd known Mists of Avalon had a threesome, I might have picked it up.


--baskerville

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[info]dreamoflife02
2007-02-06 04:19 am UTC (link)
I read that book for the first time when I was ten. After I finished, my mom was like "So, what did you think of the sex scenes?" I think I muttered and lied something about skipping them...

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[info]hangingfire
2007-02-06 04:24 am UTC (link)
Heh. I was fourteen when I read that, and so completely did not understand what was going on in that scene. My naivete until I was about 17 was staggering, frankly.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2007-02-06 06:59 am UTC (link)
I read "Wild Nights" by Emily Dickinson in 7th grade out loud...and had no idea what it was about until I started reciting. Damn thing only being 12 lines (required link) and only like 6 words a line.

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[info]serai
2007-02-06 04:41 pm UTC (link)
Funniest Poetry Fact Ever: Almost all of Emily Dickinson's poetry can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas".

Really puts a new spin on "I felt a funeral in my brain..."

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(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2007-02-06 08:08 pm UTC
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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-02-06 02:03 pm UTC (link)
Panicking Adults really need to calm the heck down: repeated experience shows that if kids aren't ready for it, they just won't understand it. This has been the case with everyone I know who was exposed to GOSH, SEX before puberty...

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 10:11 pm UTC (link)
When I was a kid and they'd make some inappropriate joke on a kids' show, I thought it was a reference to an old movie because they'd make references to old movies all the time.

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[info]lyppy
2007-02-06 03:38 pm UTC (link)
I reread it a couple times. My first reaction was, "Wait...what?" Then, "This can't be serious!" and then, "What?" again.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 05:18 am UTC (link)
The first sex scenes in a book that didn't completely fly over my head (yet I still wasn't entirely sure what was going on) were from The True Confessions of Nat Turner, checked out from my middle school library. The librarians had pulled a bunch of books from the shelf for Black History Month for us, but didn't want us to read any "inappropriate" books. iirc, a young boy watching slave-owner-on-slave rape (which "turns consensual" halfway through), mutual masturbation between two male teens, and the nuances of farting are a few scenes that did not make it onto the illustrated book-report-cube we had to do; I was too filled with pre-teen giggliness that this had slipped through (this was shortly after a librarian had voiced her disapproval of the crudeness of humor in Hitchhiker's Guide).

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[info]doc_lydgate
2007-02-06 06:09 am UTC (link)
*spittake* What utter, unredeemable halfwit would figure that anything that had much to do with Nat Turner at all would be hearts and sparkly unicorns?

I hate school employees who can't figure out the most basic shit about U.S. history.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 03:44 pm UTC (link)
Well, there were a few other books that obviously would have violence, and I was able to draw a somewhat violent house-burning scene without comment (though I remember soft-pedaling it for fear, justified or not, that the book would be examined for content and tossed out). But it felt understood that while a certain level of violence could get a pass (why, it's a sad fact of life, and part of history!), sex scenes would practically be an automatic flag for "inappropriateness".

And oops: it's just The Confessions of Nat Turner. I, uh, mixed up the title with The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, apparently. Worst. Crossover. Ever.

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[info]lyppy
2007-02-06 03:40 pm UTC (link)
In fifth grade, our librarian let us check out "Forever..." by Judy Blume. I learned a lot from that book. Mostly that guys want you to name their penis.

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[info]dez_chan
2007-02-06 06:40 am UTC (link)
I still remember picking up some Anne Rice when I was about 11...sadly, it was the Sleeping Beauty trilogy. You wanna go for traumatized there...O_o And I didn't learn my lesson and picked up Cry to Heaven like 6 months later. Needless to say, I learned to skim the book first after that.

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[info]phosfate
2007-02-06 03:31 pm UTC (link)
God, Sleeping Beauty. "This is porn. This is supposed to be porn. CAN WE ALL PLEASE PUT DOWN THE PADDLES HAVE SOME ACTUAL SEX?"

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[info]lyppy
2007-02-06 03:42 pm UTC (link)
The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty...

I got that far on Amazon.com. My Disney vision was perverted enough after Pocahontas 2. I don't need porn to go with it.

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(no subject) - [info]cmikhailovic, 2007-02-06 11:13 pm UTC
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[info]dez_chan
2007-02-06 06:18 pm UTC (link)
Funny follow up to that story: I went to a book signing a couple years later for Servant of the Bones, and I ran into a friend of the family. She made some comment about loaning me some of her "other" books when I was older, and I said I'd already read them thanks, and wasn't impressed. All of 14 and bored with porn already! Of course then when I looked at Anne Rice, I couldn't talk because all I was thinking was, "This old lady writes dirty creepy things."

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[info]nekoneko
2007-02-06 04:41 pm UTC (link)
I was freaked out by Teh Pagan Sexxors, or whatever you want to call that scene, and then I found it boring. Damn, that book was long.

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[info]lyppy
2007-02-08 02:31 am UTC (link)
Once Morgaine started humping the deformed druid, I knew the book went on too long.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2007-02-06 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Let us not forget the wonders of V.C. Andrews. Incest! Screwing in a freshly-dug grave! Sister rape! More incest! Oh, my poor preteen brain.

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[info]big_bad_wolf
2007-02-06 11:22 pm UTC (link)
I can blame that bitch for every single one of my weirdo fic kinks from 12 to 22. It's great.

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[info]seiberwing
2007-02-06 08:53 pm UTC (link)
Me: *lalala* Hey, it's the Piers Anthony section! More silly fantasy books to check out and read.
Firefly: Y HALO THAR.
Me: Ooh, a creepy monster that eats people. *reads* ...wait, what are they erecting over the dead raccoon? A gravestone?

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[info]lyppy
2007-02-08 02:22 am UTC (link)
"...a nightmarish creature who stalks humans through sexual attraction and leaves them grotesquely sucked dry of their protoplasm."

Whaaat? Where those ideas come from, I'll never know.

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[info]stopthatgirl7
2007-02-07 01:14 pm UTC (link)
...I read that and I missed that. HOW DID I MISS THAT? I know I was the most clueless teenager ever, but.

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[info]lyppy
2007-02-08 02:30 am UTC (link)
Don't worry, I read it through a couple times because of the WTF factor. It went like this:

Arthur: Yeah. Gwen, I've never fathered an illegitimate child.
Gwen: Awww, you're so faithful!
Arthur: *awkward silence* Baby, that's not what I meant. So, there's a good chance my little buggers aren't swimming upstream if you, er, catch my drift.
Gwen: No.
*knock at the door*
Lancelot: 'Sup.
Gwen: *swoon*
Arthur *swoo--masculine head nod* Ah, you're here.
Gwen: What's going on? I don't understand!
Arthur: Guys, I love you both. No, really. I love you both. So, I was thinking we have freaky sex together. And this wedding bed is like Vegas. Whatever happens here, stays here. If you get knocked up, we'll just call it my baby.
Gwen: *double swoon*
scene fade...

Later...

Lancelot: I'm so hot, I thought I was gay for Arthur until you turned me semi-straight.
Gwen: ...thanks? *understands why she didn't get pregnant from the threesome*

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