Do you read Sci-fi?
Help! Was there sex in Hitchhikers Guide? I want something new for my eleven year old, and I don't remember any, but it has been oh holy mother of dog twenty years since I read them. If he picks up Captain Underpants one more time, I may burn them all. He has also taken to reading My Side of the Mountain over and over again--this, I totally get. He can read Harry Potter with no real problems, and I think he would love Adams.
But is there sex? My dad handed me 1984 when I was in the fourth grade, and man, just because I COULD read it doesn't mean I was ready for it. I'd like to avoid doing that to Big O.
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Oh crap...I can't remember either.
I just finished reading this a couple of months ago and I don't remember anything about sex in it. It was a clean read I do believe! Not to mention a great one!
It's been so long since I read Hitchhiker's... I can't remember! I don't think there is... but can't say for sure.
I bought the compilation a year ago and still haven't started it.
AT least his reading... Mine wont.. says she has a reading disability.... drama queen!!!
Except for the joke about Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6? No. (But it's just a throwaway line really.) I think I was 13 when I read Hitchhiker's.
I have a question. I'm asking this with genuine curiosity. As a parent, exposing an eleven year old is a concern to you. What about violence? Does your child play videogames? Watch violence on TV? What is his exposure to that?
You sound like a great parent, but I think it has to be a great challenge controlling exposure to a media where inappropriate images pound children each day regardless of a parent's best effort at control.
Thank you all for the help!
Stewart-
This answer is turning into a post of it's own!
stewart,
It may be hard to control, but that doesn't mean you stop trying.
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