Teen Love In The Ruins 2016 (Soft Porn as Teen Lit)

American Conservative ^ | February 2, 2016 | Rod Dreher

[C19fan]

New in the Young Adult section, a novel called Firsts. From the publisher MacMillan’s description:

Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time-the kind Mercedes never had herself.

[C19fan]

A major publisher has a soft porn book targeted to teens. Gutter culture.

[txnativegop]

just . . . d-mn

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[equaviator]

“Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin.”...

...and by the time she’s 27, she’s a school teacher doing the same kind of things with her “stu-dents”.

[the_individual2014]

I may get flack for saying this but for most Boys this is like a wet dream come true, I am sure alot of the old men on FR can agree with that lol.

[moovova]

“...and by the time she’s 27, she’s a school teacher doing the same kind of things with her “stu-dents”.”

That was my first thought.

And we’ll be pronouncing her “guilty” or “not guilty” depending on the photographic evidence.

[equaviator]

Yeah, sure. No flak here...However, it wouldn’t necessarily portend well for the girl’s future now would it?

[chae]

Not really new. Barnes & Noble as had the “Flowers in the Attic” series in the Teen section for years.
And don’t even get me started on the pedophilia in Twilight.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Once upon a time there were a bunch of hot teens.

They were brought up by their parents like precious little snowflakes and were deathly afraid of rejection. Instead of dating they stayed indoors playing video games and surfing porn.

They never got married or had children.

THE END

[Tax-chick]

Why is Mr. Dreher surprised, aside from his contract to write even when he has nothing particular to say? Adults in this country want to fornicate. Adults in this country want teenagers to fornicate. Books which promote genital gratification as the chief end in life are very common and often very popular.

[ro_dreaming]

I was about 13 or 14 when I read "Wifey" by Judy Blume (yes, THAT Judy Blume). Eye opening, it most certainly was, for a young teenage boy.

[Yo-Yo]

I much prefer the values of the 1950s.

Playboy was first published in 1953.

Lolita was first published in 1955.

Ah, the good old days.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . for most Boys this is like a wet dream come true . . .

Maybe, but quite a few of us managed to keep them in the dream stage until we got married.

[T-Bone Texan]

Oh yeah, I learned all about dry humping from that Judy Blume book!

Why? Because she discusses it several times, IIRC.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time-the kind Mercedes never had herself.

Which they won't because, NEWS FLASH!, they are teenage boys.

Having listened to way too many "first, second and twentieth" time stories having sex with a teen age boy is not much fun for the girl.

It is not that they are inexperienced except at life. They have the depth of a puddle, the patience of a crying baby and the tenderness of a brier patch.

It is not their fault, they are teenage boys. They grow out of it.

And teenage girls tend to be as sensitive as a mimosa tree, as practical as high heels on wet grass and as forgiving as a Mafia Don.

It is not their fault, they are teenage girls. They grow out of it.

But at their current maturity level neither are ready to have sex.

[Tax-chick]

Good post.

[fungoking]

But will the 0bama administration put it on the reading list for national standards like Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye, which has a graphic described scene of a father raping his daughter.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Thank you.

I know I am likely to get responses about how people of that age used to be married. And four and five year olds used to work in factories too.

We quit both because more of them got hurt then was acceptable.

[Politicalkiddo]

Ew. What the freak? How can anyone read this garbage?

[WKTimpco]

Your sexual gratification as the zenith of life comment is spot on. If that thorn ever gets removed, it takes many years and many tears.