Well, I've never put up an age-specific disclaimer on my fiction site, at first because I thought it would be hilarious to have a disclaimer that said I couldn't read what I was writing, but now because I think it's retarded to say that at a specific age, everyone is mature and ready to deal with things.
I'm 20, and I have friends older than me who are far less experienced and who are kinda nervous about the whole sex thing in general, and I have friends who are younger than me who are far more sexually active. It's just something that happens, but I think saying "you're 18, now you're mature enough to deal with everything" is bullshit, because some people have already been mature enough, and some people aren't yet.
I do have a "maturity warning" that says, "look, there's some nc-17 fic on this page of both a heterosexual and homosexual nature. If you can't deal with it, go away." which sums up my opinion of the matter without bringing the reader's age into it.
I think with most mailing lists, it's more a matter of not getting in trouble than it is a matter of believing that teenagers shouldn't read about sex. At least in my experience.
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Date: 2004-02-04 01:56 am (UTC)I'm 20, and I have friends older than me who are far less experienced and who are kinda nervous about the whole sex thing in general, and I have friends who are younger than me who are far more sexually active. It's just something that happens, but I think saying "you're 18, now you're mature enough to deal with everything" is bullshit, because some people have already been mature enough, and some people aren't yet.
I do have a "maturity warning" that says, "look, there's some nc-17 fic on this page of both a heterosexual and homosexual nature. If you can't deal with it, go away." which sums up my opinion of the matter without bringing the reader's age into it.
I think with most mailing lists, it's more a matter of not getting in trouble than it is a matter of believing that teenagers shouldn't read about sex. At least in my experience.