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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

Sexual imagery

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. [b]But it has no such image.[/b] 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]

Look, I really don't know what to tell you.  You are either lying or ignorant of the images that are indeed in Gender Queer.  Anyone who has read it knows exactly what the pictures are.  Just stop.

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/WY-MR-Library-Books-more/5-Gender-Queer.html[/quote]

Btw, waiting for you to acknowledge you were wrong.[/quote]

I wasn’t wrong. I think Gender Queer is a poorly written self indulgent book but the image you say is their simply isn’t. [/quote]

It's not a literary masterpiece and it's only controversial due to sexual content involving underaged, not due to some ideological or political or historical fact depiction.  What is the concern exactly and the outrage if it's not available for sale in some states.  Anyone really wanting to get it can still get it online.  It's not like KGB will throw you into a gulag if they find you own one, lol   :lol: [/quote]

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