http://www.kcci.com/news/12744140/detail.html
From the article...
A Bentonville, Ark., man is seeking $20,000 from the city after his two teenage sons found a book on lesbian sex on a public library bookshelf.
He also wants the library director fired.
Earl Adams said his 14- and 16-year-old sons were "greatly disturbed" after finding the book, titled "The Whole Lesbian Sex Book." Adams said the book caused "many sleepless nights in our house."
Riiiight.
Coincidentally, an overnight session with Bentonville's hottest 2-girl escorts costs...$20,000!
Have fun, dad!
3 comments:
Here's an idea, Dad. Teach your kids how to close a friggin book. Geez.
Christa, let's not bring personal accountability into the picture, where would our legal system be then? :)
Our legal system; personal accountability; 14 & 16 year old boys; Lesbian sex book...the two of you are applying an out of place sarcasm to this story.
As a general rule when teenage boys see a book on sex, any sex, they will take a nice long look. It is the way it is. As a matter of fact, the teenage boy that has the ability to independently close that book is a little suspect.
But I digress. I'll start with the father. He may have a Christian agenda. He may also have a genuine concern for the material readily available to his children at the public library and is playing the WWJD card to appeal to the moral majority. He may actually be talking to God. Or perhaps he just hates Lesbians and will do anything to persecute them.
But what about this book? Should it be on the book shelf? Have you read it? I, for one, have not but I am willing to leaf through it so long as it has pictures. Here is a blurb I found on the internet:
***"We can all have satisfying and vibrant sex lives," says Felice Newman, author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide For All of Us. Her book has been described as "infectious and empowering" and "the most complete, all-questions-answered, savvy guide to lesbian sex." Celebrated for its detail, thoroughness, humor, and lack of bias, the book has also sparked debate for its inclusion of S/M sex play and other once-taboo practices and desires, proving itself a barometer for changes in sexual politics in the lesbian/bi/queer communities.***
I also found the author's comments to the lawsuit:
***Lesbian Life: What is your reaction to the flap about your book in Arkansas?
Felice Newman: Of course it’s hysterical that this father wants to sue the city of Bentonville because his teenaged sons had “many sleepless nights” after reading a sex guide. But the more serious concern is that the very entitled right wing Christian fundamentalists put pressure on libraries to pull books. It’s happened before with other books.
If librarians pull such books from the shelves, where will kids find out about sex? Young people have been finding sexually-explicit and sexually-suggestive books in libraries since there have been libraries. Libraries have always been neutral places, where teenagers can find things that because of their age they don’t have access to elsewhere. And in some ways libraries are safer places for finding information about sex than the internet.
My book is recommended for all libraries by The Library Journal. It’'s sexually explicit because I wanted to produce a lesbian sex book that was sexy. ***
How explicit is this book? From what I've seen it is pretty graphic in its description and pretty liberal in its content.
As a father I don't care if 16 year old boys or girls get a hold of a sex book...gay or straight. I also think there is a difference between this book and porn and at least, from what I've read, this book is a celebration of the joys of sex and not based on exploitation. But I will also comment that young boys don't tend to make that discernment.
As a father I am also wary of any sex book being within reach of children of ANY age. It seems prudent to have some sort of procedure to govern the availability of this or any sex book.
What exactly those procedures should be is not for me to decide. What is for me to decide is what my children are exposed to and I do not believe that my ten year old daughters are quite ready for this or any other sex book. They are, however, old enough to reach for books on a shelf.
That is my take on the whole thing...
Yours,
Buddy
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