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mauisunset
11-13-2007, 07:31 PM
Hey, just had to ask you guys about your takes on Alan Moore's "Lost Girls." If I'm wrong or other people have expressed this more articulately, let me know. I know Moore has said several times that the work is pornography, but I have to think he's being a little facetious (sp). Obviously there's a boat-load of sex, but there's definately a uniting theme:

All the girls are abused at a young age. Although they feel pleasure in these encounters, they also feel strangely about them. The book's also about the way their experiences shape their sexuality. I would have to posit that the story is really about victims of sexual abuse reclaiming their own sexuality from their abusers and coming to terms with the sexual person they are.

What do you guys who've read it think?

Jeff Brady
11-13-2007, 08:06 PM
The search function is your friend.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=146989

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=185312

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=170898

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=139109

mauisunset
11-14-2007, 06:21 PM
The search function is your friend.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=146989

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=185312

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=170898

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=139109


While I appreciate your wit, the first pages of none of those links does anything to adress my particular question. I'm not asking about art/not art, or free speech issues, I'm asking what people thought it was about, and whether part of that was the characters reclaiming their own sexuality.

If that was addressed further along any of those threads, then let me know, I don't have time to read through each one. But I think I'm asking a fundamentally different questions than those that were addressed by those threads.

Jeff Brady
11-14-2007, 06:23 PM
If that was addressed further along any of those threads, then let me know, I don't have time to read through each one. But I think I'm asking a fundamentally different questions than those that were addressed by those threads.

It was addressed further in the threads. I've read all of them, and posted in most of them.

Haven't read the actual book, though.