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Wes Craven's brutal truths about sex, death and childhood

His 1972 revenge horror The Last House on the Left expressed America’s fears of adolescent sexuality and its willingness to send teenagers to die in Vietnam Warning: spoilersWe are terrified that our children will be molested because we enjoy thinking about our children being molested. That was the incendiary thesis of James Kincaid’s infamous 1993 book Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture.

 

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