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Have there ever been any fanfic writers who got into legal trouble (or any trouble other than a flame from some parent and a reader who got his internet privildges provoked? Cause i'm getting a tad irritated about all the insistance that minors stay far, far away from the evil slash. One: you did your legal duty when you warned us. No one's likely to be suing you over one lost minor reading your page. Relax a little. Two: unless every last one of your stories is NC-17, demanding we leave your entire site is a bit over the freakin' top. And I swear, no matter how few and far between the ones who actually believe that smut is baaaaad for minors are, they are going to send me into a fucking snit one of these days. Grar!
(Note, btw, how I still count myself among 'us minors', even though according to Belgian law, I've never been of illegal age to read smut. Whoo. Novel concept, huh, slashers from countries outside the US? Fuckers.)
There is a reason none of my list require age statements. I did that quite deliberately, as a way to flip the whole fucking (smut-writing) world the two-fingered salute. It went by unnoticed (duh), but I'm still glad I made it.
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I started reading slash when I was 13, and the first story I ever read was one of Brenda Antrim's M/K ones. Go figure! I don't have the feeling that it had any negative influence on my character development. (My Mum, of course, doesn't agree. *gg*)
Anyway, I guess basically it's not about how old you are, but how mature you feel. There are people who will *never* be old enough to read/view some stuff, and there are others who are ready for it at 11.
The problem is that it's kinda hard to decide for yourself whether you're mature enough or not. Everyone will should, "Of course I am," (pct?) even when they are not. Then again, if parents leave their children to surf the net without guidance at whatever age, I guess then *they* think their kids are mature enough ...