It's sort of like a bell curve with almost no 12 year olds being mentally or physically mature enough to have a sexual relationship. But many do and almost none of them should because they don't understand "life" well enough.
It's not a story about May-December forbidden love. The first person narrative by the lead character (Celeste Price) shows us that despite her perfect supermodel exterior and sweet personality, she is a predatory sociopath narcissist who is single-minded in her fetish for young teenage boys in her classroom, whom she trades in once they hit a growth spurt & look too mature, and so begins her hunt for the next schoolyear love.
It's funny and really graphic, and my jaw hit the floor when a read a passage where she acknowledges to herself why she wouldn't have children with her policeman husband or even adopt - if it was a boy, once he hit his teens she couldn't keep herself from wanting to seduce him too.
Harmony Korine has bought the movie rights to this. It's right up his alley, this kind of story.
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Rumours are Korine is interested in bringing the project to HBO.
I could kind of see it working on as a series on cable TV; reading it I felt it had parallels to Dexter. The thing is, audiences may be more comfortable watching a serial killer take down violent criminals & bury the body parts at sea than watching a manipulative woman seduce teenage boys using no violence at all.
This kind of show would be groundbreaking, but audiences would only be able to follow Celeste Price if all the adult males in her life are repulsive dolts(in the book they mostly are), hence her preference for underage boys.
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So even in a book where a woman is the predator, the writer still wants us to know that men are at least paritally to blame. IE, If only men weren't "repulsive dolts" she wouldn't have to seduce teenagers.
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I don't know why some of you are going on about being right and winning. Rob and Impediment were in on this gag because I PMed them. Silent and Rao PMed me and figured I changed the post. I highly doubt anybody thought Quan made the post, but simply played along just for the lulz.
It's a common technique in all fiction writing where the protagonist is an anti hero or villain. The antagonists have to be or seem worse, so we can stay invested and have some kind of empathy. That's how characters like Hannibal Lecter gets to be the star of movies like Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.
In the case of Celeste Price, it's not like she would find men her age preferable if there were decent ones; her sexual preference got hardwired when she was fourteen. But virtually all the men she knows are leery and seedy and want to possess her. While she instead loves & craves the innocence of underage boys almost like a vampire; it's like she's stealing their youth and absorbing it into her skin (a skin and outer shell she takes care of with the fanaticism of a Patrick Bateman.)
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Well, this is huge news. One of Harvey Weinstein's many accusers, actress and director Asia Argento, has herself been accused of sexual abuse of a minor.
Personally, this smells fishy to me. He wasn't some unknown 17 year old when it happened, but a working actor. Now that his child actor years are over and the career has slowed down, he pops this lawsuit. Hmmm.
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You don't think he looks uncomfortable there? What if you swapped the genders? Does your mind suddenly change then?
Anyways, that's besides the point. He was underage, (she started working with him when he was 7 years old.... lol. Grooming, much?), the law says she deserves jail time.
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And yet, if this happened across the state line in Nevada (age of consent - 16) there would be no crime here. Rape charges determined by age of consent - rather than any threats or violence - can be so arbitrary.
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^Not the only picture of her smiling with him, btw.
We should dismiss all their claims, correct?
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Lol but you commented on how the kids face looked. We can ignore the fact it looks like a fake smile...
How do these peoples faces look, next to their rapist?
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You can argue that those photos are at an event of some sort and they're probably being paid or are contracted to appear and they're just putting on smiles for the camera, battered wives and children do it for family photo day all the time and you'd have no idea that daddy was a monster going by their smiles.
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Just like you could argue the kid has that look on his face cuz he's uncomfortable he just f*cked someone he has known since he was 7 and used to call "mommy" and now that woman he just f*cked wants him to take a damn selfie of it.
And a woman has zero class or shame if she's gonna smile right along with her rapist.
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