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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Genderqueer has a Greek style drawing of a naked adult man touching the penis of a child [/quote]

No, Gender Queer has no such drawing and, contrary to what another pp said, Gender Queer has no similarity to any Platonic Dialogue. I wish it had similarities to Plato because I found Gender Queer to be unimpressive. I ordered two copies because I encourage my teenage DS to read anything that’s banned. But after reading Gender Queer, I told DS he could read it if he wanted but there are much better books with which to occupy his time. [/quote]

Yes, it does.  Stop gaslighting.

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A controversial illustration in Gender Queer is based on this piece of red-figure pottery attributed to the Brygos Painter.
Gender Queer includes a handful of sexually explicit illustrations which have been used to argue that the book is inappropriate for schoolchildren.

[b]In one commonly cited panel, a 14-year-old Kobabe fantasizes about a scene in which an older man touches the penis of a youth. [/b]The illustration is based on a piece of painted ancient Greek pottery depicting a "courting scene".[21][2] Detractors have described this as a depiction of pedophilia.[22][23][/quote]

No. As I said, I don’t like Gender Queer because I think it’s poorly written and self indulgent. But it has no such image. But, then, full disclosure, for the life of me I can’t find the picture of a female breast that caused people to say that “Maus” was obscene. I found frontal male nudity in Maus volume II but no female breast in either volume. [/quote]

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