Steve's explanation for Losers' sex scene

[ToxicMicky]

Really glad you posted that - the MB is a great resource!

[Ben E Gas]

I understand the parallel, but I also viewed it as written-love and passion, nothing real and good can happen without them...

I took it as the kids "making love" or rather creating love as a powerful force. In their minds, they were "making/creating love" by doing that. But what do I know?

[SamanthaS]

I don't understand why people would refer to the scene as "perverted"? Surprising, yes but in mind it was a kid having sex with other kids. Although they were quite young for that kind of thing, it wasn't an adult having sex with a child, now thats perverted (The Library Policeman).

[glyde69]

First time I read IT when I was 14 and got to that scene, I had a chubby. Today, not so much.

[Connie Reader]

You're gonna think I'm perverted, but I've always loved that scene.... It's so unexpected, and yet - to me, at least - so integral to the whole story. In fact, I tend to find the palm-cutting scene cornier than the group sex. Also, Beverly was about sex from the start (remember the ankle-bracelet Ben notices on the last day of school?). I think it was her way of pitching in.

I have to say that I too was so intrigued by that scene. Even being so young when I read it, I felt very connected to the very real nature of what they were doing. I still remember being 12 and sex was all my friends and I could talk about, there were a few kids that had already done it so it was part of my everyday vernacular. It always surprised me when people got all up in arms about this scene.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Ms. Mod- thank you very much for taking the time to ask Sai King about such a controversial scene.

I found it insightful, because although I've always respected the scene, I never fully understood it. I knew it had to be more than merely sex, but other than that....

[A Guest from Roanoke]

I think it's fantastic you get the chance to ask Sai King questions on such interesting subject matter. Thanks Ms. Mod
With regards to the scene I saw it as a means of keeping them together, a bond for a better word as to a kid of that age it is probably something that is on their mind from time to time and to actually go through with it at such a young age would stay with them long after they go their seperate ways for a spell.

[doowopgirl]

That actually makes a lot of sense. I like the analogy with the tunnel between the adult and childrens library.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Yes, that is a fantastic analogy!

[BuRgErKiNgSaLt]

Sometimes sex is used to comfort. As the Losers became comfortable with one another they increasingly wished to bestow comfort upon one another. This was a gift of Beverly's intuition which may have been just what the doctor ordered. It was an unexpected turn of events. But they really had little else to give.