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Originally Posted by Mnementh
What you've also got to remember is that to most Americans (this is not meant as a bash so don't take it that way) kids should be kept as kids and wrapped in cotton wool until they're 18, they shouldn't even think the word sex let alone actually read about the act itself.
I think that the legal age for sex being much younger in the UK and most of Europe leads us to have a much more tolerant attitude towards this sort of thing.
I know this is a general sweeping kind of statement but I know people on both sides of the pond who subscribe to this kind of thinking.
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Speaking as a parent of a teenager and several future teens, if my kids are going to read about sex then I'd at least like the relationships being modelled to be ones that help them build positive expectations for their own future relationships. The ones portrayed in the Sookie Stackhouse series (since that's been brought up already) are not always healthy (or completely voluntary), and the primary relationship between Sookie and Bill depicts them sucking each other's blood during sex (humans get a 'buzz' and heightened senses from swallowing vampire blood in the series). I realize my kids are going to pull away the 'cotton wool' however much I try to prevent it, but if I can steer them away from Sookie I will.
