fanfic and sex-ed

[ahbuggrit]

 

"What Harry Potter Fan Fiction Taught Me About Sex 

Learning to appreciate my chamber of secrets."

"But what about the nonphysical? Where would I be mentally after that? Would my emotional reaction to it differ at 15 years old? What about 18? Would I want to tell anyone? How would people react if I did tell them? Did I care what my friends thought? Rather than simply being told I shouldn't do it, I sat down and pondered whether or not I would ever actually want to. Writing fan fiction meant reasoning through actions and the resulting emotions in a way my teachers never asked for, even after my supposed spouse killed our egg child."

 

A funny piece that I related to in parts. 

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Ah, I remember reading this (mostly because of the fate of the soft boiled egg triggering memories of Buffy's "Bad Eggs" episode).

There's been quite a few of these types of articles that have showed up online in the past few years (basically "fanfic was my introduction to/taught me about my sexual self"). But this one does a better job than many of exploring why fanfic can be more useful than the messages teens are getting elsewhere. That's a great quote you picked out.