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Fiction can, on an individual level, "teach the wrong lesson" to kids who read adult fiction despite the artist's wishes. However, I need you all to understand that the solution to this problem isn't censorship, banning certain themes or porn as a whole. The solution is EDUCATION
You're not going to make porn go away. You won't achieve a world of perfectly wholesome and morally pure fiction. It's impossible.
What can be done, though, is teach sex ed to teenagers. It's also educating about grooming, manipulation and abuse so that kids can recognize it.
What can be done, though, is teach sex ed to teenagers. It's also educating about grooming, manipulation and abuse so that kids can recognize it.
Censorship has historically affected marginalized authors more than anyone else. Queer fiction in particular has a history of being treated as "obscene" and "immoral". What you do when you support this mindset is helping conservative groups that wants us DEAD.
When a kid has their perception of relationships and sex skewered by fiction, that's because adults have failed them. Parents should educate them, and schools NEED to give proper sex ed.
When you use fiction to learn, it's because you were left with nothing else.
When you use fiction to learn, it's because you were left with nothing else.
And I'm really sorry if the people who should've raised you failed you so deeply. However, that isn't the fault of any artist who puts their art out there. Lashing out to them will achieve nothing, except hurting a stranger for situations they had no say in.
I'm not going to deny that there are tropes in mainstream media that can reinforce pre-existing social problems. OF COURSE THERE ARE, and they should be criticized.
Not banned, not censored: criticized.
And harassment to authors or artists isn't criticism.
Not banned, not censored: criticized.
And harassment to authors or artists isn't criticism.
However, as I pointed out, those sorts of tropes reflect problems that already exist in our society.
When you say fiction normalized harmful things to *you*, I have to assume you're talking about something that wouldn't be considered normal for most people.
When you say fiction normalized harmful things to *you*, I have to assume you're talking about something that wouldn't be considered normal for most people.
In both cases the solution is education. Learning more is ALWAYS the best path to take.
Think really, really hard about who's going to suffer if only "morally pure" fiction is allowed. I'll give you a hint: it's not pedophiles and abusers.
So, please:
Think really, really hard about who's going to suffer if only "morally pure" fiction is allowed. I'll give you a hint: it's not pedophiles and abusers.
So, please:
