ext_94644 ([identity profile] bronchitikat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] freckles_and_doubt 2008-07-04 10:28 am (UTC)

No sex in Narnia - why?

Because you asked, & I've been thinking, a bit. So a few thoughts then:-

Lewis was writing his Chronicles of Narnia in the fifties & early sixties, for children. Two reasons.

He was writing them to get across values such as basic decency, kindness, loyalty, the importance of working together, Right & Wrong (& the differences there between), believing what you know is Right & acting on it even when things go badly, etc, etc.

Oh, & Christian truths.

Lewis was a child himself in the late-Victorian/Edwardian period, so he'd have carried over some of what he learned then.

There is more to being an adult than sex - there's taking responsibility for starters! There's more to being a teenager than discovering/angsting over sex too - despite what popular culture for the past fifty years might have us believe. & the 'taking responsibility' bit is one of the things Lewis was trying to get across, rather than a lot of the 'slush' which passes for entertainment all to often.

That's enough for now. Off to think some more.

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