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My reading was never censored as a child/young teen either, and I don't think it harmed me at all. Like someone else here pointed out, I didn't necessarily understand everything I read, so it didn't scar me for life! Having said that, and I'm just thinking out loud here, maybe times have changed. An 11 year old today probably understands a WHOLE lot more than I did at that age, and I wonder if that might make a different in the impact of the reading material. I'm specifically thinking of the Dragon Tattoo book -- that one particular bit of sexual violence might have really scared/confused me about sex if I had read it as a child AND understood what was happening. I don't know...just thinking about it. I don't really as a rule believe in censoring a teen's reading, though.
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