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Hello! This sounds like a book my 13-year-old would love, but I would like to know more about the sexual content (how explicit?) and also any explicit violence or descriptions that might well come in a book about the Holocaust. Thank you!

Sharon Smith There are scenes of loving sex, quietly and lightly explicit.

There's also a scene that alludes to rape: a woman's physically attacked by two men she …moreThere are scenes of loving sex, quietly and lightly explicit.

There's also a scene that alludes to rape: a woman's physically attacked by two men she thought were friends; at one point it seems they wanted her down "on her knees" but the reason's not specified (I assume forced oral sex). Later she shows a female friend her thighs, which have been damaged, so I assume that meant she was raped.

I would happily have handed this book to my daughters when they were 11 or 12. I started discussing sex and pregnancy with them at age three, using a book meant for children, and left Our Bodies Ourselves where they could easily read it unobserved when they were 10.

So my concerns may be different from others'.(less)

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Marilyn Brine Gilmour I read it as anal as in "The Kite Runner" ...more
Apr 15, 2021 08:18AM · flag

Susan My take away of this book was like Sharon Smith's and I also believe all children should be taught about sex from childhood. This book is fine for pre ...more
May 28, 2021 04:55PM · flag

soda You'd "happily" give this to an 11 or 12 year old?!? Knowing the sexual content?? No wonder kids are messed up nowadays! and what pedophile teaches se ...more
Jul 09, 2022 05:20AM · flag

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