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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoCan’t say I’m that surprised about Wicked. People get drawn to it by the musicals and stay for the porn. LOL.
minus-squareNannerBanner@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoPorn? I got about halfway through the book when it first came out, and never finished it. I don’t recall much porn.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/book-wicked-gregory-maguire-explicit/ In a 2014 interview, he commented, “I deliberately included a ribald, unappealing sex scene in the first 10 pages so people would know it was not for children.” https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/63887-q-a-with-gregory-maguire.html
Can’t say I’m that surprised about Wicked. People get drawn to it by the musicals and stay for the porn. LOL.
Porn? I got about halfway through the book when it first came out, and never finished it. I don’t recall much porn.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/book-wicked-gregory-maguire-explicit/
In a 2014 interview, he commented, “I deliberately included a ribald, unappealing sex scene in the first 10 pages so people would know it was not for children.”
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/63887-q-a-with-gregory-maguire.html