[little jeremiah]

And graphic descriptions of pedophile acts have zero place in literature. Some things are off limits, and that's one of them.

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "And graphic descriptions of pedophile acts have zero place in literature. Some things are off limits, and that's one of them."

Who establishes those limits? You? Keeping to the Webb example, he was within the boundaries of legitimate literary expression, although I can't imagine writing something along those lines myself. I have two children, and writing anything describing harm to kids strikes too close to home, since the thought of anything happening to them cuts me off at the knees, but that's just me. In one of his novels--I forget which one--Stephen King uses a flashback sequence to describe the childhood sexual assault of one of his central characters--in graphic (although not pornographic) detail, and at the time, I didn't hear anyone proclaiming King a child molester wannabe.