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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I remember my friend and I sneaking into the  library’s Young Adult fiction to read Judy Blume’s “Forever” when I was in the sixth grade. [/b] This was after I had asked the children’s librarian why it wasn’t there and she said it was for older girls and not me.  Made me go read it faster.

By freshman year, we had read many more books in that section.

Did not make me go out and have sex early.  In fact, I was a late bloomer on that front.  [/quote]

My friends and I passed a paperback copy of this around in 6th grade! I remember sitting on the grass behind the school during recess, every one of us confused about what "came" meant, lol. We had no clue. [/quote]

I read it in the library so I didn't have to check it out. I still remember what the male protagonist did with the aftershave.  Ewww! 
It was a pretty awkward and vulgar book in a lot of ways.  I never warmed to any Judy Blume kid books.  They all seemed to be about awkward people - that didn't make me feel informed or better prepared.[/quote]

It’s not unreasonable to suggest there are a lot of books out there (without explicit sexual content and profanity on nearly every page and offensive slander of a major religion) 
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What book are you objecting to?  Not The Poet X which has very little profanity, a few pages out of 361 in which kissing is described and one on which teenagers decide not to have sex, and a Catholic priest who is gentle, understanding, helps a family in need, and corrects misunderstandings about Catholic teaching.

My guess is that teachers using this book are going to choose from the hundreds of poems that don’t touch on sex for analysis, and any reading aloud.  
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