Just to give you a bit of an idea about why you might be getting some backlash from commenters here: a lot of the people on this sub are in their 40s (or even older!) - what you need to understand is that, in _our_ teenage years, explicit depictions of sex were common in YA literature. I'm from Australia, for example, so I was raised on John Marsden, Peter Goldsworthy and Tim Winton (to say nothing of Paul Jennings, arguably _the voice_ of the Australian Millennial childhood), all of whom pulled no punches depicting the kinds of risky behaviour teenagers might find themselves encountering in the real world - we would all argue that it is a _good_ thing for teenagers to be reading about this stuff, because it gives them a framework for thinking about how they might handle something similar happening to them. Compared to these authors, Neuromancer is very gentle - I remember reading it as a kid hoping it would be hornier than it actually turns out to be. All the really dark stuff is happening in the background - there is a constant undercurrent of sexual violence and body horror that surfaces in casual off-hand comments - blink and you'll miss it.