Right! And saying Song of Solomon is R-rated would be too nice.
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The Bible: Embarrassing and True
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Once I got into my teenage years, it was eye-opening to realize
how much “R-rated” material there is in the Bible.
There's a lot of material there that you don't want to explain to kids. I knew the story of the mob that attacked Abraham's nephew Lot in Sodom years before I had any idea what that mob was after. I can still remember the way my dad looked at me when I mentioned the story to him, as if he were wondering how much I understood at the age of 8.
All the same, you might check out how when the Bible recounts such stuff, it avoids the titillation that you find in pr0n. Stuff like the rape of Tamar by Amnon, where the writer manages to make the scene practically materialize before the reader, as he does with all the events in his history, but completely without salacious details. If a modern novelist were to write the same story, there would be no avoiding such.
Right! And saying Song of Solomon is R-rated would be too nice.