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Yeah, but with her father, sex is a thing of fear, its a negative, terrible thing. It doesn't make sense that an 11-year-old child whose only reference to sex was the pent-up desires of an abusive father, to turn sex into this magical, wonderful way to connect herself with her friends. I'm just not buying it.
Not saying that it makes sense, just saying that her father does kind of portent it in the book, with his accusations of her sleeping with the boys and all, and probably implanted in a circumvent way the idea in the first place.
Yeah thought it was in there just for the hell of it. Most of Kings scenes (even the least impacting one) have a little flash back or something so that we could understand the motive... King tries with this scene but I still felt it was more of an excuse.
Someone actually explained this above, and it was explained to me as thus. To face IT, only a child could enter his realm. Even later in the books when they tried to ed IT once and for all, they had to become basically "childish" all over again. At the time of the sex scene, to escape from IT's clutches, they needed to stop being children. They had to be adults. Look at our culture, and the vernacular used. When a male has sex, it's referred to as the woman "making him into a man!" It is the single act that is universally seen as the act that changes one from a child to an adult in every single culture. So the sex, while seemingly hella out of place, is actually the only thing a child would likely think of to become an "adult", especially after Bev's father cut her down and used this possibility as a weapon to hurt her.
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Jan 04, 2014 05:34PM
Yeah, but with her father, sex is a thing of fear, its a negative, terrible thing. It doesn't make sense that an 11-year-old child whose only reference to sex was the pent-up desires of an abusive father, to turn sex into this magical, wonderful way to connect herself with her friends. I'm just not buying it.
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Not saying that it makes sense, just saying that her father does kind of portent it in the book, with his accusations of her sleeping with the boys and all, and probably implanted in a circumvent way the idea in the first place.
Yeah thought it was in there just for the hell of it. Most of Kings scenes (even the least impacting one) have a little flash back or something so that we could understand the motive... King tries with this scene but I still felt it was more of an excuse.
Someone actually explained this above, and it was explained to me as thus. To face IT, only a child could enter his realm. Even later in the books when they tried to ed IT once and for all, they had to become basically "childish" all over again. At the time of the sex scene, to escape from IT's clutches, they needed to stop being children. They had to be adults. Look at our culture, and the vernacular used. When a male has sex, it's referred to as the woman "making him into a man!" It is the single act that is universally seen as the act that changes one from a child to an adult in every single culture. So the sex, while seemingly hella out of place, is actually the only thing a child would likely think of to become an "adult", especially after Bev's father cut her down and used this possibility as a weapon to hurt her.
