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Firefox news: Livejournal Draws a Line in the Sand.
Includes a hypothetical that is actually making me ponder now - a vampire that has the body of a 14 year old, while being 1400 years old, doing naughty things. Since the objection to underage sexual activity is that their brains aren't developed enough to give informed consent, and theoretically the vampire would be old enough to, presumably... But personally, a 14 year's old body, still creepy. I think to me that's the sort of thing that's okay, but I wouldn't do it myself, and I'd possibly be casting a wary eye on the people who'd jump at the chance (depending on their age, circumstances, etc, obviously). :P
Includes a hypothetical that is actually making me ponder now - a vampire that has the body of a 14 year old, while being 1400 years old, doing naughty things. Since the objection to underage sexual activity is that their brains aren't developed enough to give informed consent, and theoretically the vampire would be old enough to, presumably... But personally, a 14 year's old body, still creepy. I think to me that's the sort of thing that's okay, but I wouldn't do it myself, and I'd possibly be casting a wary eye on the people who'd jump at the chance (depending on their age, circumstances, etc, obviously). :P
How do we treat them? I mean, if anyone were to mess with them, they would be theoretically messing with a 2 year old.
I guess as long as we ignore that fact(or state it anywhere), we are okay.
I suspect LJ is not thinking that hard about it, though. :P
Why should he/she be held to the standards of a country that is more than a thousand years younger than him/her? As Anya said, "I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!"
Normally I don't like to write about anyone under 16 (age of consent where I live) because I class anyone younger than that as a child and while I know they do have sex and I might refer to it in a story I wouldn't feel right portraying it graphically (that's a personal squick though not any kind of moral judgement on people who do write younger), but in the above example I could easily write about it (well except for the fact I don't write het lol) because to me she's not 12 she's 600. I could probably write it if it was set back when she actually was 12 because clearly to be running a household and such she would have to have a level of maturity I wouldn't expect from a modern 12 year old.
Uhmm... well. Besides what
Given, it might do good for the poster of said material to point out the fact that subject of drawing/writing has well passed their legal age of consent.
When it comes to Anne Rice, the very first example that comes to my mind is Armand. Turned at the age of 17 in XVI century, described as very boyish looking... and even better, when he was still a mortal, I believe he was merely 14 if not younger, there is unquestionably sexual relationship with a vampire that was turned in his thirties and was over several hundred years old at that point.
Also, Armand's fledgling(turned in his mid thirties in the 80's)And yes, it is impossible to avoid sexual innuendos because they are actually mentioned, if not described, in canon. Sometimes in great detail.
...it is obvious I am in that fandom, isn't it *shuts up now*
Well... do you describe stabbing one of your makers to almost death and drowning him in a swamp and hiding bodies of random female victims in your bed under the blankets so you could admire woman body until they rot completely as slightly mental? If so... then yes.
Personally I dislike her, she was a little manipulative bitch... though it only makes sense, one of her 'daddies' is a hopeless whiner who is permanently depressed and suicidal and the other one is a pompous egocentric asshole *snort*
Is it me or do they make things more confusing every time they post a 'clarification' ?
(I don't think that word means what you think it does LJ) :D
Yes they do get more and more confusing every time they post and no I really don't think LJ understands the meaning of that word at all!
Interestingly the abuse team couldn't tell her whether it would be fine without the spell in it without seeing the edited version. If they actually had comprehensive guidelines you'd think they could...
So it looks like they're going with the 'I know it when I see it' definition of obscenity.