Hi. You haven't read the words on my post properly.
I don't say Gender Queer isn't explicit. If you read the words, I say "It isn't especially more explicit than my book"
If you're not familiar with the English language, 'more than' is used to compare one thing to another, as opposed to this meaning you have made up of 'it doesn't include that thing".
The fact the pretend person in my comic says "(Gender Queer) is way more explicit" also, to most people with literacy skills, implies that the pretend person in the comic, and myself by extension, acknowledge that Gender Queer is indeed an explicit book in parts.
Now, since you seem to lack literacy skills, I'm not going to expect you to understand this next part, but...
a) Context is very important in books. you are acting like GQ is porn. But its a memoir and educational, it's showing you these things cos it's being real.
b) 16-18 yos go to school libraries too. This book, and my book, is aimed at these age groups. Not all books with pictures are aimed towards small children. Not sure you are aware of that, but they're not. This book is aimed at young adults who are already generally familiar with the topic of sex, sex education etc.
c) that was kinda one point of my comic. People assume asexuality is a 'sfw' or child friendly topic because 'theres no sex involved' and that's both really patronising to people like me and oversimplifies what sex education should be about. You're over simplifying sex education here.
d) My book is at similar level of explicit to GQ. My book is also essentially about letting young people know that if they don't feel comfortable with having sex then they shouldn't have to force themselves into sexual relationships just because it's so prelevant everywhere. Like, surely my book is the kind of thing someone like yourself wants to be sharing if you are worried about teens getting exposed to sex?
e) I'm not sure how this imagery is any more scary or harmful than any other sex education content aimed at 16-18 yos. I watched my first sex ed video in school when I was 9. Although I am from the UK and highly aware that ofc USA is considerably more....puritanical than Europe lol
Obvs what I watched at 9 was very different to this because it was 'age appropriate', but we saw just naked bodies to explain the biological differences between people.
So basically it was like the imagery in the last page you shared that is apparently as bad and scary as the images of the other pages. I think it was at age 11 we got in school our first sex ed about actual sex, showing images of adults having sex, much like the second page you share...
...Clearly because Ive written a book about how I've never had sex my entire life, seeing those images at 9 and 11 did nothing to convert me to evil scary sex lmao
In conclusion you know idk what to tell you. I think you need to support libraries more cos you clearly didn't get the literacy skills you needed in school.
