Anonymous #1 14w

Said I didn’t agree and this was their response.

1

Anonymous #1 14w

I didn’t agree with putting csa in a book for teens

5

Anonymous OP 14w

Actually CSA material CAN technically be in books for teens, but it entirely depends on how and why it’s in there and being discussed within the text. Some YA books are literally about it (ex: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson), and those books are fully about surviving and processing rape/SA. That’s completely valid, because rape and abuse are things a lot of teens go through and they deserve to have books that talk about that. But like I said, it depends entirely on how and why it’s in there

-1

Anonymous #1 14w

And by “how” it’s in there, YA books can’t even have explicit sexual content, so they can’t have explicit sexual assault either as far as I know. So it can’t be like graphic or detailed or whatnot (again, that’s only as far as I know)

5

Anonymous #1 14w

I’m of course ok with it, but the manner it was excessively portrayed over and over for no benefit to the plot was disturbing and grotesque. I used to read a lot of books about survivors to cope with my own experience as a survivor but when it’s the entire book and it had no benefit to the story outside of shock factor and grotesqueness, I’m not a fan.

5

Anonymous #1 14w

It was this specific incidence that disgusted me, how it was written and portrayed.

3

Anonymous OP 14w

Ah well that does sound bad. I’m surprised something like that was allowed to be published. Has the author or publisher said anything about it?

1

Anonymous #1 14w

I’m not sure. I’ve been avoiding the book and author out of disgust.

1

Anonymous #1 14w

No one is saying YA can’t technically have this or that. Specifically, we are talking about the NATURE at which subjects were portrayed in the book the person OP is talking about was defending. It has multiple EXPLICIT on page CSA scenes. They’re not even teens. It’s disgusting and should NEVER be portrayed that way in the YA age group. I say this as a survivor myself. Fuck the author for using trauma as shock value and traumatizing the age group she’s marketed to.

7

Anonymous #2 14w

This is exactly what I mean

3

Anonymous OP 14w

what book? i don’t want to pick it up by mistake.

2

Anonymous #3 14w

Releasing 10. It’s part of the Boys of Tommen series (binding 13)

5