Molybdenumblue comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 August 2010 09:46:52PM 0 points [-]

Well, I'm female. Could be women tend to be more sensitive to that kind of thing.

That said, I wasn't really planning to start a discussion about sexually explicit portrayals of sub-18 teenagers and whether they're ok, and I doubt I'll participate further in one. Unfortunately I don't own the book, so if anyone is curious about the details of what I was referring to, they'll have to read Orphans of Chaos (not that I recommend it on its merits). I wouldn't hazard a guess as to how much a person can be oblivious to (probably a lot), but I'd be surprised if most people's conscious, examined reaction to the sexual content (which is abundant and spread throughout the book, though not hardcore) was closer to "That is normal/A naturalistic portrayal of a 16-year-old girl's sexual feelings/Literary envelope-pushing" than to "That is weird/creepy."