[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult Content

  • From: Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:04:07 -0500

Not that it's necessarily the correct thing to do but mama and I have often 
read books together especially if there was some questionable content and then 
we would discuss it but that's how we do things. My family has always loved 
books. My uncle is a writer and reads all the time my aunt reads a lot and my 
cousins right and read as well particularly the girls in California.

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On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:26 PM, "Dornetta" <dornetta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Roger;
> I was "upset" because of the content in the book was, in my opinion, way too 
> much for her 9-year old self especially since I was dreading that "talk." I 
> don't want my children to learn the woes of sex from a book and that 
> particular book was giving instructions on not only positions but also oral 
> sex...techniques and the like. So, my "beating myself upside the head" was 
> warranted, in my opinion.  I will say that she did admit that she picked up 
> the  book based on the other novel from Zane that she read (the one my older 
> daughter said that it was OK for her to read.) That title, and I forget which 
> one, wasn't that graphic or as detailed as the G-Spot.  I see that Bookshare 
> has that book in the collection (and it was an earlier download for me) and 
> while I haven't checked to see whether or not it is under adult content, I am 
> sure that it is the "watered-down version than the first printed version I 
> read when I had sight.
> I will admit that she didn't understand the total or worldly complexity of 
> the content; her reading and comprehension skills are more advanced than the 
> average 9 year old that it scared the Hades out of me. Fortunately for me 
> during that time, I was able to field question from the mind of a 9-year old 
> and not the questions that would have derived from a mind of a child that was 
> turned-upside down or inside out from reading such a book.
> Netta
> "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder

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