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Jen0125 posted...

12-14 year olds are having sex with each other. You think they can't handle reading about women's nipples?

It's an graphic novel about the Holocaust. There's no way to make it pretty. And it's certainly suitable for teenagers.

Yea... I'm gonna call that a 'no'. Least not regularly. Boys are just starting to discover that girls don't have cooties and maybe want to do things with them while girls usually aren't that interested at that age. Maybe when they're 15 to 16 and even then it's hardly them just fucking all the time (else teen pregnancy would be through the roof). Either way, I do think it's reasonable enough.

"These kids have all seen plenty of murders, but we must avoid showing them tits at all costs!"

America is so goddamn backwards. Never mind that you can almost certainly count on one hand the number of kids in any given 8th grade class that haven't watched at least some porn, and statistically, most of those are likely to be ones that see female nudity every time they change their clothes.

I totally agree. It's utterly stupid that we have no real problem showing people killing other people even to relatively young kids, but showing the creation of new life? Likely in a loving embrace and half the population already being familiar with at least one of the two sets? ABHORRANT! BAN IT! Stupid. I'd much rather have my kids look at two people in love expressing it in the most intimate way possible than, say, running around shooting people up wildly like in GTA (which, let's be honest, a lot of teens and kids play even if they're not supposed to). But even something like FFVIIR in which we not only kill tons of mooks and see one on-screen death (via explosion no less), one likely death, and someone getting run through with a sword? Teen. Obviously I don't think we should be showing explicit content to kids, but the puritanical reaction is insane (especially since most of them are well aware of porn by 16-17).