"My daughter is just the best. Good grades, responsible, funny, still hangs out with her mom sometimes-couldn't ask for more. I know that a lot of the books she reads are young adult romances, and I'm OK with that. We've talked about sex before, of course, and I'm pretty certain my daughter is not sexually active. (She's a "young" 15.) I've googled some of her books before and have felt OK about what I've found. But now I'm feeling uneasy."
"One of my 15-year-old daughter's favorite books- Heated Rivalry-has been adapted into a TV show. She'd told me about this book when she first read it: Two rival hockey players flirt for years and then fall in love. It sounded nice! But now that this TV show is out, I realize that her description of the book was quite ... sanitized. In reality, the book is about two adult men who are having sex with each other without being in a relationship! I saw some clips and could not believe what I was looking at."
A parent discovered that a television adaptation of a favored young-adult romance contains explicit sexual scenes between two adult men portrayed outside a relationship. The parent is uneasy because the daughter is 15, has unrestricted streaming access, and had described the book in sanitized terms. The show carries a TV-MA rating, which supports restricting access for under-17 viewers. The response advises that limiting access is reasonable, recommends a calm, nonjudgmental conversation about what the daughter watched and why it concerns the parent, and suggests using streaming passwords or parental controls while reflecting on the specific source of discomfort.
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