rjack_fan 01-26-2012, 10:52 PM
I guess i'm not the best to comment, I was reading the 87th Precinct series at 12, which is waaaaay more explicit than most of those (Sibs excluded). Compared to most other authors I've read, there seems to be way less unconnected random sexual stuff, and what is included flows with the story and is usually not lengthy or overly descriptive. I recall a lot of implications that sex had or will happen, but little actual description.
I actually appreciate leaving the details out. I find it less disruptive to the story, but still acknowledges a natural part of what is happening in the book.
A friend mentioned he had read about how parents tend to have a harder time with sex in YA books vs adult books when their kids are reading. Makes sense to me, sex in YA books would be their fictional peers, but sex in adult books is firmly planted in the adult world.
Basically, it's probably a good thing I don't have any kids. I'm sure i'd mess it all up and they'd be traumatized for life.