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Originally Posted by patrickt
I'm old and when I was growing up we read books without graphic sex or violence. Hemingway, Steinbeck, Jones, Heinlein, and even Louis Lamour and Mickey Spillane. I don't know how we managed without knowing exactly, clinically, what was going on in the bedroom and how the author thought it felt to have your intestines pulled out through a tiny hole in your navel. It's amazing we ever manged to have a life, isn't it?
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I know!!! It was sooo horrible to read books like that growing up! Thankfully my 8 year old lives in a society were gratuitous sex, gore and violence are normative so he wont have to suffer so!