Comments | linettasky: on censorship and men's genitalia

linettasky

on censorship and men's genitalia

Feb 17, 2007 15:17

In the New York Times right now, there's an article about a book for 9-12-year-olds that has the word "scrotum" on the first page. Take a minute and read the article, if you can. It's hereThe article ends with the quote: “I don’t want to start an issue about censorship,” she said. “But you won’t find men’s genitalia in quality literature...At ( Read more... )

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derdriu February 18 2007, 20:14:26 UTC

What's really interesting to me is that most of the librarians state, not concern for the children reading the book, but concern for the adults who would have to read it to them. It's as though they are against the book, not on moral grounds, but on "it makes me personally uncomfortable" grounds. And this, to me, is hilarious and sad.

Better than the first page tornadogrrrl February 18 2007, 20:42:06 UTC

The Holy Spirit of my Uncle's Cojones, Marcos McPeek Villatoro

It's not a kid's book though...

labelle77 February 19 2007, 03:37:36 UTC

Here via

faethverity February 20 2007, 21:43:30 UTC

Did you see this? http://www.gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/youth_literature_is_filled_with_scrotums.php

linettasky February 20 2007, 22:16:39 UTC

Neat!

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