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[puddingcat]

Heavens, I almost forgot to submit prompts for springkink! I've resubmitted 6 that weren't picked last time, and dreamed up 8 new ones. I think there's some good daegaer and louiselux bait in there to ease my first few weeks in my new job... < / puppydogeyes > ;)

This time, I will be good. I know I can't do more than a couple of short fics, especially with a move & everything associated with it. Please feel free to kick me if I appear to be doing otherwise.

ETA the bit I originally meant to write:

With all the LJ fuss about underage characters in fanfic / fanart, I'm not sure quite what to think of Jilly Cooper's latest (Wicked). I *like* Jilly Cooper, with all her 2-dimensional expositions and lack of understanding of anyone without a £200k house in the country. It reminds me of growing up during the Eighties :)

I'm less sure how to take sex scenes (not graphic, but certainly R-rated at times, in comparison with much of the fic out there) between schoolchildren. I *know* a large percentage of kids have sex before they're 16, but I'm still not comfortable with it being made sexy in a bestselling book. And, of course, why is it ok for a published author to write things that would get the user kicked off LJ?

Comments

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

Because she's Jilly Cooper, she's not publishing that on 6As servers and if her publisher is in the UK, then the US Obscenity laws that LJ said they were going to be ruling things by may not apply to said book, at least not in the UK.
LJ doesn't have to let the fanfic be on here at all, remember.

[scribblemoose]

I think because she's published in the UK, primarily. If the LJ servers were in this country, things would be a lot saner, imho.

Except the site would probably go down at 4pm each day for tea. ^_^

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I adored Wicked! (reviewed it on my LJ last year and have been pimping it to whoever would listen ever since)
As a product of a private school and a teacher (now thankfully retired) in the state system, I can say she got it all exactly right and if people /authors use sex to sell serious ideas to the general public, good luck to them! I think the story will tell a lot of people a lot about education without them realising they're being lectured to.

Her research was truly phenomenal and whilst she uses stereotypical characters she does so for a purpose. Actually, from my own teaching experiences I could almost say that the kids from the state school had been through my class... I could even give you their names.

I was perfectly comfortable with the book,and with the sex. Reality, after all.The only under-age sexy bits were between kids within a similar age range; the adult-child sex was terrifying and the perpetrators got their just deserts; the gay teachers were shown not to be paedophiles; the adult het sex was 'normal'.

I'm less comfortable with people who object to sexy pictures of Daniel Radcliffe who is over eighteen and has appeared nude in Equus.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, springkink. I will see what I can do. :D

Coming along very very late to this...

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I have to say, btw, that my personal experience of underage sex (as in - I was underage - just - and my partner was a year older) is that it can be very good fun, with no angst and actually considerably less drama than a lot of the overage sex I've had!

My High School Sweetheart (tm) was a love, we had a lot of fun, and some quite good sex. We broke up with some teenage angst, but wound up still being friends eleven years later.

I guess by 'problems' you mean teen pregnancy? I agree that is a scary scary thing, but most of my friends were sexually active from their mid teens onwards and no one got pregnant. I think it's all about the context - teenagers shagging is part of growing up. I think shagging much older people, or where there's an abusive edge/uneven power balance it is much ickier. I must say - I've always been horribly freaked out by some of the Hermione/Snape stuff out there, even when there wasn't graphic sex attached!