Our own experiences will always colour what we read; it's to be expected.
Yes! I feel very similarly about sex scenes. I know that people do it, just as I know that they use the toilet, but I don't need to read the details. I especially don't want the details in YA books!
For me, it's all about context and expectation. (You should see my browser history and fic reading...) With Stardust it was both completely unexpected and IIRC, kinda crude. And both of these together, just threw me; it was out of context. (Reading fic, I know mostly what to expect, and am mostly fine with it there.)
Re: Scene in Stardust
Yes! I feel very similarly about sex scenes. I know that people do it, just as I know that they use the toilet, but I don't need to read the details. I especially don't want the details in YA books!
For me, it's all about context and expectation. (You should see my browser history and fic reading...) With Stardust it was both completely unexpected and IIRC, kinda crude. And both of these together, just threw me; it was out of context. (Reading fic, I know mostly what to expect, and am mostly fine with it there.)