I love when authors discuss and illuminate teenage sexuality in fiction. As a kid, it felt safer to me to know it was in a novel. I had the same feeling when I read the first Divergent book as an adult. Teenage sexuality is so caught up in so many different things beyond simple desire, and most teens are so verklempt--reading about it in books gives people language to understand and talk about themselves.
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I love when authors discuss and illuminate teenage sexuality in fiction. As a kid, it felt safer to me to know it was in a novel. I had the same feeling when I read the first Divergent book as an adult. Teenage sexuality is so caught up in so many different things beyond simple desire, and most teens are so verklempt--reading about it in books gives people language to understand and talk about themselves.