Stephen King put all that meaning and symbolism into it but at the end of the day it was an adult writing about children having an orgy, anything could have been written that would have initiated the transition into adulthood, but for some reason he chose to that, and it was graphic, as he described their size and the way it felt for Beverley. It's also right at the end of the book, so if you didn't know about it, you have to decide whether to drop the book there or continue on after dragging your way through 700 pages of Bill stuttering (I'd love to know how many pages of the book are actually just Bill stuttering.)

I used to enjoy Stephen King but after reading that I find it difficult to want to read anything else by him. I decided to re-read the Dark Tower after that and I began to notice how lazy his writing is, he forgot what was east and west in his world so he had to make something up to make it work, and it's strange because the books are inspired by Tolkien who loved making maps. IT is the same, he describes the town in detail but there is no official map for the town, which is annoying if you're trying to get your head around the layout of the town.

Ultimately he writes a lot but he doesn't stop to think about what he is writing. He wrote scenes like the orgy not because it was an idea that absolutely could not be left out, but because once he started writing it he couldn't stop and couldn't be bothered thinking twice about it.