is it a prevailing opinion that a thirteen year old (chronologically and mentally) having sex with an adult woman is icky
It is now; might not have been when the movie was made. Some things are changing for the better.
Nowadays any adult woman who has sex with a boy younger than, say, 17, is generally considered a pervert. Which does not mean there isn't a juvenile mentality that responds "Lucky boy!"--but that is not the approved social response, because of the possibility of abuse and the implied double-standard.
I totally missed the Big reference. Oops.
But I don't remember -- did she know he was a kid in a man's body when they did it?
She didn't know, but I think that just makes her not a perpetrator. He's still a victim.
No, she never knew. And the having sex part pings me less than the "Not telling his parents and them thinking he was kidnapped for a month". Of course, the age-change-magic-handwavium part is such a huge leap and ithe entire film takes place in such a candy-colored universe that I kind of go along with the flow.
I think she is a victim also...she's not having sex with who she thinks she is.
No, ma'am. Your son wasn't kidnapped. He was off living by himself and having sex with a 30 year old woman. No worries!
I so didn't get that film.
It's totally a child's fantasy, which I get, but once the sex was part of it, I was squicked, even at the time.
I wonder if it wasn't a grow up's vision of a child's fantasy. Are boys that young seriously and practically interested in sex?
I am a little hypocritical asking that, because I certainly was, but I don't think I would have engaged if suddenly given the option. I just liked the stories and pictures.
Oh, I meant the movie as a whole -- living a grownup life, doing things grownups could do, all of that, but not specifically sex.
I don't think I would have engaged if suddenly given the option. I just liked the stories and pictures.
This.
