Removing underage stories

[Alex Bragi]

To provide children as the victims is more a sign of the times than anything else... there is no end to the fiction on paper and on TV that provide acts of sexual violence against adults; so much so that it has lost its edge, it has become blase, so we must push it further to achive the gut wrenching horror that American Psycho gave in spades.

I believe you are right, after a while will this kind of fiction does 'lose its edge', as you put it, 'so we must push it further...' ? The question is, how much further? And, what do we do when it (the written word) no longer thrills us?