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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago

The characters are young kids, like 13ish I think. The book ends with them getting lost in the sewer, and they somehow decide they have to have sex to escape. The 3 boys take turns on the 1 girl, with the sex described from the girls person. Then they leave the sewer.

[-] mriswith@lemmy.world 64 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A few notes:

  • They were 11

  • She describes it in way more detail than you'd ever want

  • It was supposed to be them going from innocent kids towards adulthood, so Pennywise would no longer want to eat them. And it is how they find their way back out.

  • It was written towards the tail end of his over decade long alcohol and cocaine binge(he doesn't remember writing several of the books in that period, especially Cujo)

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago
  1. ew
  2. so what did they do for the movie?
[-] mriswith@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It gets worse.

Her dad is implied to want to abuse her, and she feels empowered after unbuckling one of their pants after he initially doesn't want to do it, since she's doing it on "her terms". And he starts crying afterwards. The whole thing is real fucked up.

Understandably both the miniseries and movies ignore and skip that whole thing.

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