Here's what I would post to your blog if I could get the comment thing to work. :(

In general, I think that the books I read young that could have been considered age inappropriate were books that I just didn't fully understand, but I think that most of them would have been considered age inappropriate because of their implied sexual content; I never tended to read many books that tended toward frightening or disturbing imagery.

I never read erotica, but in junior high I did read books like "Tales of the City", in which a lot of sex goes on offstage and a lot of pot-smoking goes happens onstage. Some people I met worried that it was too "mature" for me, but what really struck me about it was its playful, inventive plot twists and its loving tone, which I think is really the crucial nature of the book. It seemed a lot less strange to me to read a book where sex was a part of life than it seemed to the adults who noticed me doing it, I think. And I remember being bemused at that age that people thought that reading about drugs or sex would make you want to imitate your reading, as if being young someone meant you were unable to separate fiction from advice.

(Also having problems getting the comment thing working)

The books that fit that description best for me were supposedly age-appropriate - the books aimed at children/YA focusing on childhood sexual abuse.

Not so much the notorious but blatantly sensationalistic ones (Flowers in the Attic, Clan of the Cave Bear), but the After School Special sort.