So today, I made a little experiment with two of my classes... 7th and 8th degree, so children between 11 and 14.
The idea came from a comment the other day on TORC - I think it was Ethel, but I'm not sure, whoe said that first when she saw Lidless pic, she did not think of any harm, and only understood the double sense later - and of Jonathan's famous example that one day a mother of a 13 year old wrote him that she did not want her son to read such nasty things as written on his site and that thus he created the TOS to protect the innocent mind of the youth of the the world....
I happen to work with kids of this age every day. And I can tell you that my students are no choir children... the other I confiscated from angel looking little Nelson a pen with a lady in bikini on it - only when you turned it to write, the bikini vanished. When a girl had to climb on a table to switch on the beamer to watch a movie, one of them yelled: "Strip-Tease"... just normal teen-agers, I'm sure you get the picture.
Of course, they all know that I am a Tolkienfan - after all I took a class to see ROTK last year and I often use LOTR in grammar examples. That's what I did today: I used several pictures from the movies for a revision of prepositions in German - among which Lidless infamous. The sentence they should write beside it: Frodo steht hinter Sam. Sam steht vor Frodo. (Sam stand in front of Frodo. Frodo stand behind Sam) To be sure, I even translated the caption in French: "Tiens-toi tranquille!" Other pictures included Pippin and Merry carried by Treebard, the Eye, the Nazgul flying over the battlefield etc.
Now, have a guess: How many of my tender innocent students giggled, blemished or gave any other sign of realising that they had just seen an anal rape?
:mrgreen:
I decided now to put this exercise in the teacher's exercise collection to see if one of my colleagues will protest....
and not one student gave a sign of understanding