if you’re looking for a fictional book to read that deals with the topic of an inappropriate/sexual teacher/student relationship, i HIGHLY recommend reading alissa nutting’s “tampa.” ive read “tampa” a couple of times and it’s a good read. the book is about a middle-school teacher and her relationship with her 14-year-old student. you can read more about the novel here.

The last couple of months I have been on a transgressive literature kick, and yesterday I completed Tampa by Alissa Nutting. And let me say, WOW!

For a debut novel, this is incredibly strong. In fact it is excellent, albeit horrifying, funny and disturbing. But to understand why, you have to read it. And you have to pay attention to the way the narrator's mind works, and the subtle clues between the spaces of what she says and what she does not say when describing and justifying her predation. Because make no mistake, Celeste Price is a monster. And despite this, the only people who can ever initially realize she's a monster are fairly well adjusted women. Why is this? Because Celeste is beautiful and manipulative, and women are the only ones who, when immediately confronted with her monstrosity, see beyond the beauty. The (presumably all heterosexual) males in the story, even one of the fathers of the victims and especially Celeste's handsome, police officer husband, are too blinded by both their desires and their rudimentary understanding of women.

That beauty is cultivated for the purpose of manipulation, just as her acts of kindness are. There are many descriptions of the routines she uses to keep herself fit for predation, and her fears of how aging will corrupt her ability to seduce teenage boys. She is disgusted by ugliness, developed male bodies and any sexual act that does fulfill her narrow desire.

Her only relationships of inner consequence are those with boys between the ages of 13 and 15, and those are overwhelmingly driven by her sexual appetite. She does not care for these boys emotionally at all, and she becomes disgusted at the thought of them losing their boyishness and developing into men. Having sex with her husband or any other fully post-pubescent teenager fills her with disgust.

This is not to say that Celeste does not understand human emotions. She does. She has to in order to coax her prey into doing what she wants. The only person who she has anything resembling kinship with is another psychologically disturbed, older fellow female teacher who may fantasize about murdering the teenagers in her charge.

The sex scenes are undoubtedly the hardest to get through. It is clear that Celeste is the dominant partner, even when she is "submitting" to penetration. Not simply because of the age dynamics, but because of the way she uses gestures, language and the emotional dependence and immaturity of the boys to get them to do what

I have so many thoughts.

1. Celeste is a well-written, effective character. She’s revolting as a predator and, really, a human being.

2. So many great characters—Ford, Jack, the poet who has a crush on Celeste at the beginning of the novel.

3. The plot events really had me thrown. Initially I thought that there was too much gratuitous sex, I do to a point, but I also see that as a way to distract the reader. Take the incident with Buck’s heart attack and the way Celeste chose to deliver the news to Jack by having him touch her breasts.

4. I felt like the scene where Celeste was running naked through neighborhood was a bit too over dramatic.

5. While it’s used and glossed over in order to make the point that Celeste has a one track mind. I appreciate the choice of curriculum, because it’s obvious that some of the things Celeste is talking about mirrors the sort of envelope-pushing convos she has with her students. Honestly, the reading curriculum is insanely overdone.

Tldr: I don’t need to read this book ever again.

This primarily seems a Ben Shapiro driven thing (as in he wrote about this tweet, colored it as some BS feminist agenda tweet, and read it on the podcast as such).

Here it is:

> My daughter started crying at the dentist office bc the dentist “is a boy” and the dentist said “sorry, there are no girl dentists at this office” & my daughter looked at me & said “why did we come here.”

Here are some of the replies you guys (shapiro fans) made:

>Let her teeth rot out of her stupid fucking head, then see if she can figure it out.

>The trash racist liberal bigot doesn't far from the trash racist liberal bigot tree.

>Your daughter sounds like a rude sexist little jerk

>Do the men in her life abuse her? Or is it that you've taught her that men aren't to be trusted? Either way, what you're framing as a feminist cri de coeur is in fact a terrible sign of mis-socialization. She'll have lifelong trouble in her relationships with men at this rate

Are you guys serious? The tweet sounds like an innocent comment children make - I work in healthcare and its so common for even adults to have a preference in the gender of healthcare providers.

Yet Ben (and the listeners) turned it into a stupid “militant feminist” agenda issue and that’s how you responded to it.

I listen to the show and usually agree, but imagining wrong doing and smugly patting yourselves on the back for telling a parent you hope her child’s teeth “rot out of her stupid fucking head” is a little much.

Has anyone else read TAMPA by Alissa Nutting? I finished it in two days and was blown away by the author's ability to create an anti-hero who I liked so much.

books similar to Boy Parts by Eliza Clark- anything with main characters that are unlikeable or hugely flawed, or off putting. some more examples: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Tampa by Alissa Nutting Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

anything dark and gritty, satirical. psychological horror.

Going into this, I knew it would be about a sexual relationship between a 16-year-old girl and her teacher. I was expecting something more psychological, rather than erotica, because that's all that seems to happen throughout this 200+ page novel--the nameless protagonist recounts, scenario after scenario, of all the times she'd find a way to seduce her older lover (mostly by babyfying herself; interestingly, this was published in the late '90s, long before Tumblr adopted the infamous "nymphet" aesthetic), him getting aroused, and the two having sex. There's basically no plot!

This girl doesn't seem to have a social life whatsoever, not even when she attends a new school. We never hear from her aunt and uncle again after she moves out and with her teacher. The only other person I recall her interacting with (besides the group of girls at the start, who, like her aunt and uncle, we never hear about again) was with another male teacher her lover personally knows (and seems jealous by their friendship).

I gave it 2/5 stars. Then I remembered Alissa Nutting's Tampa, another explicit book about an inappropriate student-teacher relationship, which I gave 3/5. I found myself wondering why I liked that one a bit more. I realized it's because there's a bit more going on in Tampa--we see just how selfish Celeste Price is, going so far to prioritize her relationship over calling 911 upon witnessing someone collapsing from a heart attack! It also succeeded in making me chuckle at a few darkly-comedic lines.

Anyway, Innocents is Coote's only published novel, and I wonder if she would've improved, story-wise, had she ever released another.

I have read a lot of really dark books in different genres of romance from kidnapping, student/teacher, stepbrother/stepsister, foster siblings, guardian/ward, non-con, dub-con, taboo, MMF, MFM, forbidden, cheating, age-gap etc. and now I have ran out of books and need some recommendations. Trust me I have searched Reddit and most of the recommendations for these types of book are older posts containing books I’ve already read. I’m not really into historical romance or RH’s just because it is hard to keep track of all the guys, but if you know some super steamy RH then send them my way. I’ve only ever read and finished one RH which will be on my list below. I’ve read 2 MM romance series which were HIM and Hello Goodbye by Sarina Bowen, but prefer MMF even if it is just a few scenes in the book, all 3 characters do not have to be in love. What are some of the darkest and/or steamiest romance books you have read? Here are some of the books I have read, loved, and am looking for something similar to read:

1. Captive In the Dark Duet by CJ Roberts
2. Indebted series by Pepper Winters ( actually I have read all of Pepper Winters books )
3. New Camelot & Thornchapel series by Sierra Simone
4. All of Amo Jones books
5. All of KV Rose books (my fave was her Unsainted series)
6. Torn from Assunder by Nashonda Rose
7. Broken Love & When Rivals Play series by BB Reid
8. Torment by Dylan Page
9. Escape from Paradise Gwendolyn Field
10. Consequences by Aleatha Romig
11. Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
12. Balance series by Lucia Franco
13. Stepbrother Dearest by Penelope Ward
14. Credence & Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas
15. Stanton series by TL Swan
16. Devil’s Playground by Ashley Jade ( actually I’ve read all her books )
17. Misbehaved by Charleigh Rose ( although I’ve also read all of her books)
18. Cruel Intentions by Siobhan Davis ( as well as all her other books except her RH’s)
19. All of Rina Kent’s books
20. Fallen too Far by Abbi Glines
21. The Cuda Confessions by Eden Connor
22. 18 JA Huss
23. Crossed Lines by Lana Sky
24. Untouchable by Sam Mariano
25. Sugar Daddies by Jade West
26. Tempted by Megan Hart
27. All of Olivia Cunning’s books
28. Twist Me by Anna Zaires
29. Madeline Abducted by MS Willis
30. King series by TM Frazier
31. Harem of Hearts by CM Stunich ( this is the only RH I have read)
32. Plausibility by Jettie Woodruff
33. Want You by Jen Fredrick
34. All of Sabrina Paige and Colleen Master’s stepbrother books 35.Th

Please help me find something funny to read that is not on every "top 100 funny books to read" list! I'm desperate. I somehow accidentally read 25 dour, tragic, serious books in a row this year and I need something a little lighter that won't also feel like a waste of time.

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have already read and loved:

Catch-22 [This is the gold standard of American comedy for me]

Everything by P.G. Wodehouse [and this is my gold standard of English comedy]

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky [I would be especially interested in other books that are about, or written by, people who are not from the USA or England, like this one]

Everything by David Sedaris

Everything by Kurt Vonnegut

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

Good Omens and other Terry Pratchett books

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Three Men in a Boat by J. K. Jerome

Running with Scissors/Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

I never see these recommended and I loved or liked them a lot:

Treasure Island!!! By Sarah Levine [A top example of 21st century comedy]

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis [A top example of 20th century comedy]

The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray [A top example of 19th century comedy]

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Hotels of North America by Rick Moody

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

Why Are You So Sad? By Jason Porter

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The Asterix comics

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have read and thought were fine, but wouldn’t necessarily seek more of:

Allie Brosh’s stuff

Hark! A Vagrant

I am America! (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert

The Night Vale books

John Dies at the End by David Wong

Christopher Moore’s books

Everything else by Bill Bryson

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I didn’t care for:

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk

Anything by Thomas Pynchon

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Dresden Files series

The Martian by Andy Weir

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern

Most celebrity comedian me

hard mode: no 'my year of rest and relaxation', no 'virgin suicides'

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Summary:

As if getting pregnant weren't complicated enough, Lucy sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about her fertility doctor.

Director:

John Lee

Writers:

John Lee(original story by) (screenplay by)Alissa Nutting(original story by)Ilana Glazer(screenplay by)

Cast:

• Ilana Glazer as Lucy
• Justin Theroux as Adrian
• Gretchen Mol as Nurse Dawn
• Sabrina Gadecki as Nurse Rita
• Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Hindle
• Josh Hamilton as Greg
• Nils Lawton as Milhail
• Sullivan Jones as Bryon

-- Rotten Tomatoes: 49%

Metacritic: 54

VOD: Hulu

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat