Teenage sex & the story

[Handley_Page]

Over the last year or so, there have been several reports in the UK Press about 'under-age' sex & pregnancies. The most recent being the case of a 13 year-old boy who got a 15 year-old girl pregnant and is now the father of a baby girl.

Given that this is real life, how would an Author on Lit handle a story with such youthful characters ?. I can see the ban on under-age sex might be appropriate if the girl was under-age and the male was adult, but how about this case ?

Edited to add this link:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6257007/Schoolboy-becomes-father-at-13.html

 

[xssve]

Unfortunately, as far as I know, mentioning underage sex at all is illegal under current legislation, thus even the news article where you heard this could conceivably be prosecuted - the only criteria is a judge deciding it appeals to prurient interests, i.e., it's strictly a matter of opinion.

Hasn't happened so far, as far as I know, but it's possible.

So far, they seem to be focusing on BDSM and Gonzo" type porn where either underage models are involved, even if it's softcore/cheesecake type stuff (no nudity), or where the models/actresses although of legal age, are dressed in children's clothing (Max Hardcore).

As a general thing, I don't see where and oblique reference would be taking a large risk, but I'd hesitate to make it the central theme of a story.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The boy just turned 18 and the slutty bitch who took advantage of him is 21.

 

[xssve]

Wow, off topic, but I just looked and the US teen birthrate is over 50%, the highest in the industrialized world - and highest in the most religiously conservative states.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_tee_bir_rat-people-teenage-birth-rate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32884806/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

I'm going out on a limb and suggesting that pretending teenagers aren't naturally horny isn't helping.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

xssve is not correct. Writing/publishing fiction about adolescents over the age of consent (16 generally) is not illegal but lit has a strict policy to not allow any erotic encounters under 18. I see the risks on the net with all the porno sites and I totally agree with Laurel & Manu.

There is a whole range of debate out there about young sex, teenage pregnancies and consent - most of it driven by religious belief. Seems strange to me that Holland, land of free sex and knowledge, is the western country where virginity is given away latest - at 17+, and teenage pregnancy is the lowest.

Am I beneath the pale, or is an open, honest, parent-child debate about sex helpful to all.

If you don't teach your children about contraception you can't complain when they fuck up

 

[NoJo]

Personally I've always found this 18-over thing highly irritating. I'm fascinated by the real life Lewis Carroll, who, though he certainly never acted on it, had a very passionate physical desire for Alice Liddell -- and there was quite probably a reciprocal romantic desire in the 12-year-old for the handsome and charming Oxford Don

 

[SimonBrooke]

Wow, off topic, but I just looked and the US teen birthrate is over 50%, the highest in the industrialized world - and highest in the most religiously conservative states.

And this surprises you?







(edited to add: not 50%, fifty per thousand, so 5%).

 

[Boxlicker101]

Wow, off topic, but I just looked and the US teen birthrate is over 50%, the highest in the industrialized world - and highest in the most religiously conservative states.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_tee_bir_rat-people-teenage-birth-rate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32884806/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

I'm going out on a limb and suggesting that pretending teenagers aren't naturally horny isn't helping.

The teen birth rate is not even close to 50%. According to the first link, it is 52.1 per 1,000 teenage females, including married women. This comes out to a birth rate of 5.21%.

ETA: The data are not all that useful, because they are over ten years old.

I suppose, as the second link says, the birth rate is higher in religious states because contraception, including the "morning after pill" is discouragred, and so are abortions.

 

[amicus]

Read the article, do the research. Even in the linked material the word, 'may' is the operating verb, meaning they are fishing and speculating.

Secondly, also in the links, abortions are not counted as pregnancies and non religious States have a much higher number of abortions of teen pregnancies that do the more religious States.

Sneaky bastards, fudging the data right before the eyes of the forum and expecting to go un-noticed.

Nay.

Amicus

 

[SimonBrooke]

Over the last year or so, there have been several reports in the UK Press about 'under-age' sex & pregnancies. The most recent being the case of a 13 year-old boy who got a 15 year-old girl pregnant and is now the father of a baby girl.

Given that this is real life, how would an Author on Lit handle a story with such youthful characters ?. I can see the ban on under-age sex might be appropriate if the girl was under-age and the male was adult, but how about this case ?

Serious answer to the original question, I think it's extremely important that we should through narrative be able to explore the undoubted moral issues which surround early sexuality. However, that does not mean that I believe it is necessarily a good thing that such stories should be erotic (I'm open to argument either way on that); and it does not mean that Literotica should publish it.

Literotica provides a very valuable service to people who want to tell stories. We should all be grateful to Laurel and Manu for that. If they were to allow what the gutter press would undoubtedly call 'kiddie porn', they would get at least a great deal of hassle, and possibly put themselves at legal risk. We can't ask that of them.

 

[NoJo]

^^^ yes I guess that's right -- although it basically relegates literotica to a porn site imo, instead of a story site. Which is why the vast majority of stories here are stroke

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Serious answer to the original question, I think it's extremely important that we should through narrative be able to explore the undoubted moral issues which surround early sexuality. However, that does not mean that I believe it is necessarily a good thing that such stories should be erotic (I'm open to argument either way on that); and it does not mean that Literotica should publish it.

Literotica provides a very valuable service to people who want to tell stories. We should all be grateful to Laurel and Manu for that. If they were to allow what the gutter press would undoubtedly call 'kiddie porn', they would get at least a great deal of hassle, and possibly put themselves at legal risk. We can't ask that of them.

They arent crusaders and prefer to walk on the safe side of the street.

On the other-hand crusaders & rebels made this site possible, so theyre hypocrits in harvesting what others made possible but arent willing to risk themselves. They want the benefits but wont pay dues. How honorable is that?

 

[Handley_Page]

They aren't crusaders and prefer to walk on the safe side of the street.

Who wouldn't ?
I think I can suggest a reason: Legal Fees !

 

[bruisedangel]

Who wouldn't ?
I think I can suggest a reason: Legal Fees !

More than just legal fees The risk of having the site shut down permanently, possibly a record, or at the least, the label of providing kiddie porn. Why is it hypocritical to maintain a website within the label of the law? Furthermore, if they were to allow a story that could be viewed as kiddie porn, there would be no more site in order to allow 'crusaders' to publish on. I should think that would be the dishonorable thing.

 

[xssve]

The teen birth rate is not even close to 50%. According to the first link, it is 52.1 per 1,000 teenage females, including married women. This comes out to a birth rate of 5.21%.

ETA: The data are not all that useful, because they are over ten years old.

I suppose, as the second link says, the birth rate is higher in religious states because contraception, including the "morning after pill" is discouragred, and so are abortions.

Seemed a little high to me.