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🔸Sexual content in fiction should not be treated as worse or more terrible to write or to read about than violent content in fiction.
🔸Normalizing, trivializing and even glorifying violence in fictional content– while othering, and villainizing sexual content– is fucked up.
🔸The idea that someone is more likely to act on sexual thoughts and desires than they are to act on violent thoughts and desires is rape culture in action.
🔸There is nothing magical about sexual violence that makes it more immoral or worse to portray in fiction or to discuss than non-sexual violence.
🔸There is nothing magic about sexual fictional content or sexual thoughts that make them more irresistible than violent content or violent thoughts.
🔸There is nothing worse about portraying sexual content in fiction than violence. There is nothing worse about portraying sexual violence in fiction than non-sexual violence.
🔸There is nothing worse about “romanticizing” sexual violence in fiction than there is about romanticizing non-sexual violence in fiction.
🔸An author does not need to use their fiction to hold their audience’s hand and tell them that violence is wrong.
🔸An author does not need to use their fiction to hold their audience’s hand and tell them that sexual violence is wrong.
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