I don’t disagree with that. I’m not saying we won’t or shouldn’t handle it delicately. I just think there’s this tendency for people to equate not thinking about or dealing with it in literature or art (or at best always presenting it as obvious exploitation/abuse) as having the only real morally viable position on…

Well, there was never any chance that scene was going to make it into the movie, which is fine by me. However, I do think we have a tendency to want to filter childhood sexuality through some kind of sanitizing lens that at the very least paints it in idealistic terms and at worst outright desexualizes kids so that we…