Thirty years after Stephen King published his best-selling novel It, one scene continues to stick out to many readers as horrific, even though it wasn’t intended that way: a group sex scene between children.
But they get lost in the sewer tunnels after the showdown and start to panic.
The sole girl of the group, Beverly Marsh, tells her male friends that the only way for them to get out of the tunnels is … to have sex with her.
What follows is an extended description of Beverly encouraging and having sex with each of the boys.
The scene still attracts controversy, and both of the onscreen adaptations — including the one in theaters now — have ignored it entirely.
Vulture reached out to King’s agent for confirmation on the statement, and he responded, “That sounds like my statement.”
He added: “To it I’d just add that it’s fascinating to me that there has been so much comment about that single sex scene and so little about the multiple child murders. »
