"As Mary said that, Lyra felt something strange happen to her body. She felt as if she had been handed the key to a great house she hadn’t known was there, a house that was somehow inside her, and as she turned the key, she felt the other doors opening deep in the darkness, and lights coming on. She sat trembling as Mary went on:"
Seriously? They cut out a number of sentences that didn't even have anything explicitly sexual in them?
Implicitly, though
But I agree. Ridiculous to cut those out. Hooray for cencorship.
*MySmiley*
You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
A follow-up to my earlier post about sexuality in YA, more specifically in His Dark Materials
- 14/09/2010 11:13:45 AM
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Now I wonder which version I have at home
- 14/09/2010 02:27:24 PM
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Umm
- 14/09/2010 02:54:55 PM
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It isn't equivalent to sex, no, but it is said to be the implicit cause of it. *NM*
- 14/09/2010 09:54:00 PM
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Your title line is hilarious. Gold Star for Legolas! *NM*
- 14/09/2010 03:00:49 PM
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Thank you, I'll be here all week. 
*NM*
- 14/09/2010 03:02:12 PM
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*NM*
- 14/09/2010 03:02:12 PM
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Shit. Then who will be here next week? I need entertainment then, too. *NM*
- 15/09/2010 04:06:40 AM
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*NM*
- 15/09/2010 04:06:40 AM
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Not explicitly sexual? But it said "breast"! We must protect our children from this filth!
- 15/09/2010 04:22:58 PM
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Could have just changed it to chest. It wasn't a sexualized "breast" in that context. *NM*
- 21/09/2010 04:03:00 PM
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