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![]() ![]() Vulture reached out to King’s agent for confirmation on the statement, and he responded, “That sounds like my statement.” He added: “To it I’d just add that it’s fascinating to me that there has been so much comment about that single sex scene and so little about the multiple child murders. Times have changed since I wrote that scene and there is now more sensitivity to those issues. It’s another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children’s library and the adult library. The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again. ![]() None of us remember what we did as children–we think we do, but we don’t remember it as it really happened. The grown ups don’t remember their childhood. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and Grown Ups. I wasn’t really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. ![]() If you Google King’s statement on it, you’ll come upon a quote traced back to a forum on from November 2013 that reads: The scene still attracts controversy, and both of the onscreen adaptations - including the one in theaters now - have ignored it entirely. It is, technically speaking, a gang bang featuring children. What follows is an extended description of Beverly encouraging and having sex with each of the boys. The sole girl of the group, Beverly Marsh, tells her male friends that the only way for them to get out of the tunnels is … to have sex with her. But they get lost in the sewer tunnels after the showdown and start to panic. In the original novel, the group of kids - known as the Losers’ Club - have defeated the manifestation of their nightmares they call “It” (a.k.a. Thirty years after Stephen King published his best-selling novel It, one scene continues to stick out to many readers as horrific, even though it wasn’t intended that way: a group sex scene between children. ![]()
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