Contributors over at Huffington Post discuss five fictional characters that stimulated their pre-teen/teen sexual awakening, including Artemis from Artemis Fowl and Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables:
When it comes to my sexual awakening in fiction, specific characters figure very little. A prose adaptation of The Odyssey for young adults (hot goddesses were always making Odysseus act as their sex slave); a copy of Catherine Coulter’s The Cove, a suspense novel with strong erotic elements, that was found on my parents’ shelf — odd books like that did the important work. But Gilbert Blythe, the love interest of red-headed Anne of Green Gables, was my romantic awakening.
