The shapeshifting monster is hardly even necessary: communities can and do fail to protect kids from sex, violence, and death, even without a supernatural agent. I'd prefer to believe that scene was based on what young teens did back in the late 50's. I always saw the sex scene as a sort of intentional mistake on the parts of all the characters involved: to maintain their bond, they decided to move into adulthood together in a way they came up with. Just sayin. the whole system of community and family that traditionally protects kids from the big bad world] either fails to protect Beverly or actively does the harm it's supposed to prevent. I suppose when you're young the idea of young kids having sex doesn't seem that bad, you really don't know any better. That you feel differently about it now shows that you aren't creepy at all. I don't understand why people lose their shit with this scene. 100% Upvoted. The largest catch brought into the Sailfish Marina was a tiger shark weighing 738 lbs. I think I was 14 when I read it and it was a very different experience than I would have now. One scene of the book was when they tried to solve a murder case and the cover art was a bottle in a river. Second, the book is about taboo, and the way that taboo things permeate our lives, are always there and only sometimes visible. ._1PeZajQI0Wm8P3B45yshR{fill:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._1PeZajQI0Wm8P3B45yshR._3axV0unm-cpsxoKWYwKh2x{fill:#ea0027} 10040745 Okay you know what? 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Stephen King is brilliant. Can anyone shed light on this for me? As a child, sex didn't have all the baggage it does for an adult - it was neither good nor bad - just something adults did. It really is that simple. Live music, casual attire, no part-ner required, bring a snack. To me, that's a blemish in an otherwise perfect book. A lot of her part in the story was sexualised. So she attempted to give it back to them and it worked. “I wasn’t really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. 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The book dealt with childhood and adulthood --1958 and Grown Ups. Face it, what do 12 year old kids do when they are left alone without parental supervision? 3016. To 11-year-old-me, them effectively forcing adulthood on themselves by having sex just registered as a clever hack. Being 11 she only understood those sides of it. I've been reading these comments trying to remember what part everyone is talking about and now it makes sense. Sewer Orgy Scene from Stephen King's IT Anonymous Mon Sep 18 15:44:45 2017 No. The power of BELIEF that they are adults now is what set them free. There's certainly an almost universal social/moral imperative to protect kids from sex, which is why the depiction of kids having sex is so offensive to begin with. P.S. It was a fiction book to. Not knowing what to do, all avenues closed, Beverly decides to imitate what she thinks adulthood is about and directs the others to follow her lead. Laurel Sauer, anchor-woman at WPTV-News Channel 5, emceed the event. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook. Ohh NOW I remember the part in question, because what you wrote is what I thought of it as a teen. ._1x9diBHPBP-hL1JiwUwJ5J{font-size:14px;font-weight:500;line-height:18px;color:#ff585b;padding-left:3px;padding-right:24px}._2B0OHMLKb9TXNdd9g5Ere-,._1xKxnscCn2PjBiXhorZef4{height:16px;padding-right:4px;vertical-align:top}._1LLqoNXrOsaIkMtOuTBmO5{height:20px;padding-right:8px;vertical-align:bottom}.QB2Yrr8uihZVRhvwrKuMS{height:18px;padding-right:8px;vertical-align:top}._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0{font-size:14px;font-weight:500;line-height:18px;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._1LLqoNXrOsaIkMtOuTBmO5,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._2B0OHMLKb9TXNdd9g5Ere-,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 ._1xKxnscCn2PjBiXhorZef4,._3w_KK8BUvCMkCPWZVsZQn0 .QB2Yrr8uihZVRhvwrKuMS{fill:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)} Photos taken at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000 show the president posing with future First Lady Melania Trump, Epstein and Maxwell. "I wasn't really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. It didn't seem particularly erotic or voyeuristic to me, and I'm no prude, I can roll with seven 11 year olds having group sex in a sewer, but I was left feeling very confused by it all. It doesn't really add to the story and the book would have been just fine without it. It's my favorite book period. I also don't think it's supposed to be the most "correct" thing they could have done. It was just as fucked up in 1988. ._33axOHPa8DzNnTmwzen-wO{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%}.isNotInButtons2020 ._33axOHPa8DzNnTmwzen-wO{font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.5px;line-height:32px;text-transform:uppercase} Like a friendship pact or a "last day of camp" celebration. As it turns out, Beverly was right. But the one thing that I can't seem to explain or reconcile is that sewer orgy scene with the kids. But I don't think an under-aged orgy is the only way to achieve cohesion... or is there something that I missed? The scene wasn’t from Annabelle, though, as effectively sphincter-tightening as that demon doll movie is. None of us remember what we did as children--we think we do, but we don't remember it as it really happened. It’s very disturbing, and sort of a backstory for what IT is, or where Pennywise came from.” The script was read out on the podcast, and has since been posted on Reddit. Personally I find "consensual" [not in the legal sense, ergo the quotes] sex between the kids less repugnant than the abuse and sexual assault Beverly routinely suffers through the book. What's interesting about the gangbang scene in that context is that it paints the kid's own sexual agency as maybe NOT being one of the things from which they need protection -- the scene seems gratuitous, but the fact that it comes across that way is part of what makes it vital to the plot: it hits the squicky taboo reaction so directly on the head, but it's also pretty clear from the rest of the book that the adults' approach of treating sex like a boogeyman that's going to rear it's head and gobble up their kids isn't too effective either. 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