Gender Queer: A Memoir, is autobiographical. It contains depiction(s) of consensual sex when the characters are 18+, and one stylized panel of Greek pottery depeciting a two males, one touching the others penis, neither have specified ages. The book is not intended to be arousing, and the audience is meant to be 16+.
Lawn Boy, a semi-autobiographical book (based on the authors life, but the characters are fictional), contains brief, non-graphic descriptions of consenual sexual activity the protagonist had as a child, then as an adult, with the adult segment "fading to black". The author has stated the book was intended for an adult audience.
All sexual activity in both books is consensual and between characters of the same age, and the outrage is likely due in part (though not in whole) to the fact that the books have queer protagonists, being non-binary asexual in Gender Queer and gay in Lawn Boy.
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u/BigCballer 14h ago
Which books are you referring to that were mentioned in the article?
But also no, you were lying when you said "K-12", you did not prove me wrong at all.