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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]DP. If your high schooler is interested in seeing sexual images, they can find far worse thing elsewhere very easily. This book has the image in the context of a positive message about sexual respect and staying within your comfort zone rather than feeling pressured to do something you don’t want to do. That is a good thing for teens to be exposed to.[/quote]

Then you have no trouble with the woman reading from those books and showing the pictures.

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Time, place and manner.  There is a difference between what someone chooses to read for themselves and someone deciding to broadcast the content the way she did.  I don’t not think the content is offensive but also understand why someone might not want to be blasted with it without warning.

None of us here are saying people should be forced to read these books against their will, which is essentially what this woman did to listeners.  We simply think a high school library should be allowed to circulate these books for those who *want* to read them.[/quote]

Let me see if I've got this correct:

1. A concerned parent reads from a book at a school board meeting, to demonstrate that the book contents are not appropriate for the school library.
2. Outrage ensues from other parents who agree that the content is inappropriate.
3. Outrage also ensues from other folks who, though they believe that the content is acceptable for high school, believe that the content is inappropriate for a broadcast internet stream to a likely extremely small audience, claiming that children could be exposed to said content.

I presume that the argument is that the content is okay for a 9th grader, but not for an 8th grader.  My...that's a fine line.

And then to attack the parent for supposed broadcast of inappropriate content is mindboggling hutzpah..  And I think that such assertions are made with a straight face.  Amazing.

FWIW, my high school freshman is 13 (birthday soon), and it'd be nice to preserve her innocence for a while longer. 
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LOL, your 13 yo already knows a whole lot more than you realize.[/quote]

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