Dirty Mind Reading: Difference between revisions

* In one of the ''[[Xanth]]'' novels, three of the young characters need to join the Adult Conspiracy (i.e. learn about sex) before obtaining a magical [[MacGuffin]] that will allow one of them to lead a tribe of goblins. This is because said character is nearly blind, and the item she needs is a set of magical contact lenses that will not only fix her vision, but allow her to see into the thoughts and daydreams of others. Including the naughty ones. It was determined that she had best learn about sex the mature way, rather than from seeing the filthy thoughts of the average goblin male.

* For an example of this trope played extremely darkly, there's a book called ''Fall to Grace'' wherein the protagonist, Jiro, gains super powers on his tenth birthday. One of them is mind reading, and he can't really shut it off at first. Jiro hears his father's thoughts as he masturbates, and it's a fantasy about raping his son. Cue running away and, when he meets his father again later on, blind panic that leads Jiro to telekinetically throw three chairs, a frying pan and a couch at him.

* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Shining]]'' has an early scene where Danny Torrance notices a female hotel guest watching a bellhop and thinking she'd "like to get into his pants". This leads to a kind of [[Entendre Failure]], as five-year-old Danny can't understand why she doesn't just get some pants of her own to wear instead of taking his.

* The reason why ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries|Sooki Stackhouse]]'' hasn't had a boyfriend until she met Bill Compton. She can't control her [[Psychic Powers]], so any guy she meets (except LaFayette, of course) immediately starts imagining what they'd like to do with her, and she hears all the dirty details. Bill, being a vampire, has no brainwaves and can't be read, which attracts her more than anything.