{"id":751,"date":"2013-06-21T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:38:17","slug":"british-childrens-laureate-talks-sex-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"British Children&#8217;s Laureate Talks Sex, Or, Me \u2665Heart-ing\u2665 Malorie Blackman, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, you know, if you wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/10128510\/Honest-sex-scenes-in-books-will-stop-teens-learning-from-porn-Malorie-Blackman-says.html\" target= _blank>honest sex scenes in YA lit<\/a>, the whole learn-by-porn-because-this-is-shameful thing would dry right up. Better sex from an earlier age, fewer assaults, an understanding of both pleasure and power and responsibility?<\/p>\n<p>Using fiction? For education?<\/p>\n<p>COULD WE DO THAT????<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--JxkV4OKeJo\/S2GN1_nEKqI\/AAAAAAAABwc\/VGykzjGOCBQ\/s1600\/Boom.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Boom.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>*sound of minds, blown*<\/p>\n<p>CK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ckkellymartin.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/ya-books-sex-ed-pornography.html\" target= _blank>well reasoned thoughts<\/a> on this are well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you know, if you wrote honest sex scenes in YA lit, the whole learn-by-porn-because-this-is-shameful thing would dry right up. Better sex from an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,17,62],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-what-we-do","tag-who-we-are","tag-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7629,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}