08-19-2012, 03:57 AM
(08-18-2012, 12:10 AM)Jesse Wrote: But I thought Vanyel was 16 when he and 'Lendel got together. It doesn't matter-- Van also mentions that he's "bedded enough women" before he and 'Lendel met, which has to make you wonder when he did all the bedding. At 15? 14?
They get together when Van is still 15 - they later stage the "fight" in the rain to make everyone think that they're not lovers, and it's this fight that Van's mother makes reference to, in the same letter that mentioned both that she's writing it on his birthday and that Mekeal got Melenna pregnant.
(08-18-2012, 12:10 AM)Jesse Wrote: We could honestly go on and on about this stuff.
Yeah, but of course the point is very well made, I think. I guess what really bothers me here is the idea that just because some people write about underage sex, that some people think that it somehow means we're "encouraging" breaking the law when we're doing nothing of the sort (if simply writing about someone committing a crime really did encourage other people to break the law, all writers in just the mystery amd true crime genres alone would have been forced out of a job a long time ago, and more than a few other genres would look a lot different).
Can underaged sex be a bad thing? Sure. There's more than enough evidence of that (just ask any of Jerry Sandusky's victims). But I hope that nobody thinks that the full-blown banning of the writing of underage sex in a strictly (and obviously, here on Mpreg Central) is going to make one bit of difference in the end. If anybody reading this is really put out by the idea of underage sex, I think (and please take this in the context it's intended) that your time and energy would be better spent in the support of organizations like victims' advocacy groups. Please help target the real problem.