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Originally Posted by Rbneader
There are kids like that. There are also kids who read indiscriminately and pick up wildly inappropriate material. Or who view reading as a challenge to be conquered and deliberately aim for adult books. It really depends on the kid.
I've known kids who picked up Dan Simmons, Marion Zimmer Bradley, the Pern books, etc, in elementary school, and to this day refuse to consider reading anything else by those authors because the experience was so bad. They simply weren't ready for it.
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...in other words, these books had themes (and/or plots, etc) unsuitable for those individual kids at that time, and the children started reading them and found them to be unsuitable, and were no longer interested? Or were the children irretrievably harmed and their souls put at risk?
I read a whole pile of 'adult' books as a kid. Lots and lots and lots of them. I've not doubt some of the people in this thread would have tried to stop me. I'm very glad that my parents didn't.
And either way, fudgifying certain words would absolutely make no difference to any of this, apart from adding confusion and/or entertainment value, inserting a whole lot of groins into fairytales, and taking Jesus Christ out of the bible and out of religious texts.
Lastly? Where some parents are trying to censor their young adults' reading for bigoted reasons - refusing, to take one very common example, to let them read young adult books with gay storylines - I can and will say loudly and strongly that those parents are making a bad parenting choice. And I make no apologies for that.