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[–] Ragdoll_X@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Also:

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This also reminded me that in his short story "The Jaunt" Stephen King felt the need to include the following lines for no apparent reason:

Ricky and Pat were watching him seriously, his son twelve, his daughter nine. He told himself again that Ricky would be deep in the swamp of puberty and his daughter would likely be developing breast by the time they got back to earth, and again found it difficult to believe.

[–] mrbeano@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the graphic description of a child being raped in "The Library Policeman"

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Theres also a short story where a daughter, now grown, dwells on her dad cumming with his daughter in his lap during an eclipse when she was like 9.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

JFC how much of this shit is there?

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 6 points 16 hours ago

Almost all of his works, especially the earlier ones during his coke years, are sprinkled throughout with unnecessary sexualization of teenage girls.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago

gross, im not surprised, im guessing thats why he was trying to keep things at bay when he was anti-trump for a while.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Said what? Ricky doesn't say anything in that quote.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 points 18 hours ago

We Are All One Mind

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

This.

Everyone knows the scene from IT and how disgusting it is but many do not understand that King has a long history of pedophilic tendencies when writing teenage girls in almost all of his works.

In Carrie he has a section that takes an odd focus on how nice her legs look, in Under the Dome there is a lengthy description of an pubescent girl's pubic hair, etc...

Like, I get he is a horror writer and that means depicting scenes that are intentionally written to be uncomfortable is part of the genre, which includes scenes of sexual violence and abuse, but there are ways to accomplish these depictions without the unnecessary sexualization of underage girls.