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Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year agoFor example, the gender queer author wants to show blowjobs to little kids.
Honestly, I don’t get why its an issue in the first place. Libraries don’t have every book ever written, so why make not having a particular book an issue? Especially when it has a picture of a blowjob in it. We don’t libraries with playboys, do we?
irmoz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Who?
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
She wrote gender queer. This article has a bunch of pictures from it, including the blowjob and sex scene.
theiowastandard.com/shocking-images-from-book-gen…
My question is why do lefties want this book specifically in schools?
irmoz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I’m a lefty and this is the first time I ever even heard of that book. By that description, I find it hard to believe there’s any movement to get that specific book in schools.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Its the most banned book in America or at least according to latimes usatoday and cbs. All argue for it to be in public school libraries and its disgusting.
www.latimes.com/…/gender-queer-most-banned-book
www.usatoday.com/story/…/11715584002/
cbsnews.com/…/gender-queer-most-banned-challenged…
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For middle school it’s a bit much, but for high school I don’t see a problem. I’m guessing like 50% of students will have experimented with self-pleasure by freshman year and at least 25% will have had some kind of sexual activity with another person. These pictures are not very sexy nor are they meant to be. When I was in high school (before smartphones were everywhere) I still had easy access to porn. The big problem is that porn is a terrible resource for learning about sexuality AND it’s way easier to find than someone’s honest account of their own sexual journey. Porn has no educational value, but I believe this does. If there’s at least one book in the library depicting bloody violence and gore then I can’t see a good reason to ban a book with a single-frame, 2D drawing of a penis in someone’s mouth.
Unclutch your pearls already.