![]() ![]() Hoover’s most famous novel, It Ends With Us, sold over 2.5 million copies in 2022, becoming a New York Times best seller. The issues presented in Hoover’s stories correlate directly with detailed descriptions of sex, body parts, and an overall glorification of real-time problems in her copy-and-paste Wattpad stories. ![]() ![]() Fifty-six percent of teenagers ages 11-16 have seen explicit content either in literature or online. ![]() Kids are not getting Hoover’s books from school but buying these books for themselves or having parents obliviously buy explicit content.Įxposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is directly related to risky and unsafe behavior in early adulthood (National Library of Medicine). Shelf after shelf at local stores contains hundreds of poorly written stories that emphasize our patriarchal society. While these subjects must be addressed and discussed, writing about them in smutty YA romance novels doesn’t build awareness. Unfortunately, these subjects are ultra-normalized in this day and age. Rape, miscarriage, abuse, toxic masculinity, and infidelity are all topics glorified by Colleen Hoover in her young adult (YA) novels. ![]()
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