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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The images in that book as seen in the video above are beyond disturbing. A child receives oral sex from a man in one of them. Wow.[/quote]

If it was cis pedo would fcps ban it?[/quote]

Never would have even made the shelves. The only reason these made the shelves was under the guise of being inclusive to lgbtq. They need to find a gay friendly book without pedophilia. I’m sure there are a few out there.[/quote]

I am pretty certain gay people want to to be seen as people with talents, passion and positivity, not just man-boy love 💗 [/quote]

So why can’t we find supportive books that aren’t pornographic, bordering on pedophilia? We can surely do better.[/quote]

Serious question: are you turned on by these descriptions? To me, there is nothing remotely arousing about the language used or the descriptions. If a friend of mine describe to me sexual exploration he indulged in as a child with another child, it would not remotely turn me on. In the context of the chapter of this novel, it is also not even remotely arousing. Pornography, in contrast, is intended to be sexually arousing. There is a legal standard by which pornography is judged. There’s a lot of caselaw behind it. It Hass to be salacious with an intent to sexually arouse. No reasonable person could possibly think that either of these books is intended to sexually arouse it’s readers. No reasonable person is going to think that there is salacious intent in either the excerpt of the graphic novel or the excerpt of the book. I am quite certain that I reasonable committee reviewing both of these materials will conclude that it is within the school librarian‘s purview to add them to the collection if the school librarian thinks that they have merit for the students served by the collection. Unfortunately, all of this will be decided long after the November Election. Until then we will continue to see manufactured outrage frothing up a bunch of idiots who don’t bother to actually check any source material and are easily manipulated. And an extremely frightening level, it will have succeeded. The rest of us rational creatures, in the meantime, will continue to freak out about the dumbing down of America and the distraction of civilization.[/quote]

THANK YOU.  I would bet big bucks that these titles will stay in libraries when all is said and done.  Why? Because the regulation states that books are added to the library by the librarian under the direction of the building principal using the guidelines set forth in the FCPS collection development reg and the buildings own collection development policy.  The FCPS policy states the book must have two positive reviews or be previewed by a librarian.  Both of these books do indeed have two positive reviews and are written for a high school audience.  [/quote]

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