Rape and Young Girls

[GaryWilcox]

This is a healthy debate between forum members that had hijacked a thread about someone's sexual fantasy.

I have provided this place for such talk, and moved one post here. Below is Kallie Thomas' deleted response. Please be respectful of each other, and feel free to continue the debate here.



Re: Kallie Thomas

Originally posted by Xue Lan
And CHILDREN suffer for it. Forever.

You think that is good thing?

Think about it. That's all.

Murder happens in real life, too. People suffer for it. Forever. But what you seem to be suggesting is that works of fiction are somehow causing the crimes in question. And that is a dangerous road. Take it to its logical conclusion--no one should write about murder to thrill (they do it all the time--it's called a murder mystery, it's written for the sole purpose of entertaining the reader). And what about Tom Clancy, for goodness sake? Murder, espionage, treason, nuclear catastrophes--and all for the sake of entertaining the reader. You think child abuse hurts? Try a nuclear catastrophe in a highly populated city. Someone need to take away Clancy's word processor?

Of course not.

And why not? Because he is writing FICTION. Not an educational manual, not a step-by-step on how to nuke your local metropolis. FICTION.

If writing fictional accounts of things illegal in REAL life is a crime, most successful authors should be in prison. And if we're going to give the okay to blaming writers of fiction with things that happen out in the real world, we might want to just start burning those books now.

Think about that. Think about what it is you seem to be suggesting.

Kallie