Is Young Adult SF/F Too Explicit?

[ellen_datlow]

I participated in this week's Mind Meld:
Is Young Adult SF/F Too Explicit?

Comments

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

I wonder what John considers 'perversions' -- Holly once told me that there were supposedly only a few topics that YA editors would pass on. One was bestiality. I forget the second.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I don't know...but if you want to get embroiled, you could certainly ask him :-)--if you dare.

[livia-llewellyn.livejournal.com]

Anal sex.

[rob-davies.livejournal.com]

This does not bode well for my YA novel Hillary Potluck and the Barnyard of Shame.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[blackholly.livejournal.com]

'Boring' was the second. They were "the two things you couldn't do in YA" from a talk Susan Vaught gave at the Nebulas a few years ago.