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The point is your kids are seeing these images one way or another. Who cares if it's in a book at school. Just admit you're a prude. Sex is not taboo for middle school kids nowadays. It's everywhere you look. Heck, PG13 movies have sex in them and middle schoolers are watching those movies. I'm not advocating you watch porn with your kid, but you all need to be realistic. They will find it out one way or another and the other avenues, outside of books at schools, are far worse. Only weird conservative prudes think sex is taboo. You'll be in for a rude awakening when your kid starts exploring in unhealthy ways. |
Lol it's funny how some people think they should be the Grand High Determiners Of Books Other People Should Not Be Allowed To Read. |
+1 Most/all will have access to actual porn. These are stories of personal journeys and experiences that some teens may benefit from hearing. |
It's this part that the book banners ignore. Having sex described in a book (yes, even with details per the Forever excerpt earlier, or pictures as in the graphic novels) does not make something wrong, does not automatically make it erotica does not automatically make it not ok for highschool level who are navigating sexual feelings. That is the kneejerk reaction some people are giving, but it's kneejerk, without thought, and also a very slippery slope that leads to people attempting to ban additional books like Shakespeare and more. Same sh*t, different year, the hysteria folks continue to be like this woman from Field of Dreams, decades later. |
Exactly. It’s a small minority of loudmouth people who are insisting school libraries carry these particular books - or else! Really boggles the mind that they are so intent on exposing kids to what is essentially cartoon porn. |
Wow, are you clueless. I’m hardly a prude - got a good laugh out of that. However, as a PARENT, I recognize that graphic sexual material is not for kids. Of course they’ll find it online regardless, but that doesn’t mean schools need to provide that material to them. It’s beyond bizarre that you think school libraries are the place for porn. As several posters have said, just take your kids to the public library or order them all the graphically sexual material you want from Amazon. School libraries are completely inappropriate places for this trash to be accessible. You’re most likely not even a parent at all - just the usual troll insisting kids NEED easy access to this garbage. And btw - I’m an independent, but people like you definitely make Democrats look repulsive. |
It's a small minority of loudmouth people who are insisting school libraries only carry books they personally approve of. Really boggles the mind that they are so intent on controlling everybody else. |
The books aren't porn any more than Forever by Judy Blume is porn. They aren't even erotica. Graphic sexual description or even drawing is not automatically porn. |
LOL ok I never said kids NEED access to it. I truly don't understand why people care so much. Be a good parent and teach your kids about bodies. Go wash the crusty socks under your kid's bed and forbid them from having sex until marriage. Let's see how that works out. |
We’re not book banners. We’re porn banners. On the contrary it is the left that is into banning books; for example, classics like To Kill A Mockingbird and Tom Sawyer. |
OK, great. These books aren't porn so sit down. |
How old are your kids? |
I'm truly embarrassed for you that you're actually claiming pictures of a girl giving a blow job to another girl wearing a dildo isn't porn. Or pictures and descriptions of vibrators and how they work. I mean, do you even hear yourself? DP |
So you think because we don't want porn in our kids' school libraries, that somehow equates to not teaching our kids about their bodies and sex? Or forbidding them to have sex until marriage? How old are you, 12? You sound dumber than most middle school students. |
+1 And let's not forget the outcry about Abigail Shrier's book, "Irreversible Damage." Can you image the outcry from the left if that book was available in school libraries?? |