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>11 year olds who don't even know how to masturbate (their sex knowledge is explicitly detailed in the book)
>Teenagers
If the protagonist were at least - at least - 13 or 14, the scene wouldn't hit as much. But you have kids who barely crossed the threshold of puberty, who don't even know what their dicks and cunts do (there's a scene describing how Beverly get aroused from seeing dicks for the first time), suddenly having an orgy in the sewer, right after they defeated a monster. It's one of the most stupid scenes in an already stupid and lazy book.
Furthermore, the only older kids, kids that are aged 12, are the bullies, which are only one grade above the Losers (5 to 6, so 11 to 12).
It breaks the immersion and was written with one hand.
>Kids too young to know the dynamic of sex, with undeveloped physiological abilities, have an adult style orgy in the sewer right after defeating a monster
All the normie talk about Beverly being molested (King isn't a subtle writer; if she were molested, you'd know all the details in a 20 pages monograph) or about the ending of childhood or loss if innocence (it's implied they returned to being kids and forgot all about the sex and each other, as if never happened, right in September - this being the sudden amnesia and memory recovery plot that forms the propulsive backbone of IT: fragments of something horrible resurface from the heroes as they get a call; this hooks the reader; the reader keeps reading) is an attempt by normies who can't even parse elementary symbolism in Ulysses (Bloom's journey mirrors that of Odysseus) to pretend to be literary critics and seeing meaning where there isn't and never was one - in a Stephen King book, and especially in one obvious masturbatory, for the writer, scene. King, by the way, explains his philosophy of writing in the Bill Denbrough's first chapter in IT - there's nothing wrong with an entertaining story and depth and symbolism and themes aren't important. He spelled the whole matter, through his self insert, in the story; there's no reason to excavate for something that isn't there because there's one simple reason the orgy there - King found it entertaining.
And I'm saying this as someone who has read more King than is necessary for a /lit/ poster, from all his career.
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>Janitor from Tamil Nadu
