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Fiction can, on an individual level, "teach the wrong lesson" to kids who read adult fiction despite the artist& #39;s wishes. However, I need you all to understand that the solution to this problem isn& #39;t censorship, banning certain themes or porn as a whole. The solution is EDUCATION
You& #39;re not going to make porn go away. You won& #39;t achieve a world of perfectly wholesome and morally pure fiction. It& #39;s impossible.
What can be done, though, is teach sex ed to teenagers. It& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s because you were left with nothing else.
When you use fiction to learn, it& #39;s because you were left with nothing else.
And I& #39;m really sorry if the people who should& #39;ve raised you failed you so deeply. However, that isn& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t criticism.
Not banned, not censored: criticized.
And harassment to authors or artists isn& #39;t criticism.
