Question about appropriateness.

[DarkSteven]

I've got a story I wrote some years ago, about Orpheus (points if your Greek mythology knowledge is good enough to remember him) as a boy. It includes scenes of sex which he witnesses.

Would a young child seeing sex be considered inappropriate for a Lit submission?

 

[CopyCarver]

I've got a story I wrote some years ago, about Orpheus (points if your Greek mythology knowledge is good enough to remember him) as a boy. It includes scenes of sex which he witnesses.

Would a young child seeing sex be considered inappropriate for a Lit submission?

My guess (and it's only that) is that your story would be rejected. You'd probably be OK if your protagonists were some kind of supernatural beings, but mythical humans are human nevertheless.

 

[emap]

A child witnessing sex is akin to a child having sex and will not be approved. If say you rewrite so that he is 18 no problem, though as I recall Orpheus was a young man when he turned into a tree.

Perhaps rewrite the story completely and have it when he is a tree and lovers come to lay under him and have sex, which gives him a woody, literally of course, and say a nymph comes along and releives the pressure.

 

[DarkSteven]

Thanks, guys. I can't rewrite it to that degree, so it'll stay unposted.

Emap, Orpheus went mad after Eurydice, who he rescued from Hades, vanished from him, and was stoned to death by women he had spurned. Maybe you're thinking of Cyparissus?