Why do you think some cutoff date is necessary? Shouldn't this be a decision individual parents make about their own individual children (except in cases of abuse and neglect)? What is so very damaging about sexual material that it has to be kept locked up that isn't damaging about non-sexual material? When I had nightmares from seeing things I couldn't handle as a young child (under 10) it was always violence, not sexual material. I didn't *get* most sexual material until I developed my own sexual feelings. So why the concern about sexual material? Children too young to understand it usually ignore it.
And when you define sexually explicit material as porn based on the author's intent you skirt perilous territory. I have written things that people were very aroused by when I was just telling a story and wasn't particularly aroused by the sex scene (commonly this happens when my characters have kinks I don't, or like things I don't). I would define it based on a lack of characterisation and plot, myself.
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Re: #5
Date: 2007-12-03 07:56 pm (UTC)And when you define sexually explicit material as porn based on the author's intent you skirt perilous territory. I have written things that people were very aroused by when I was just telling a story and wasn't particularly aroused by the sex scene (commonly this happens when my characters have kinks I don't, or like things I don't). I would define it based on a lack of characterisation and plot, myself.