What book was it?
I ask because the first real science fiction book that I ever read, that inspired a life-long love for the genre, and which I read under the age of ten, was Rendezvous With Rama, which did contain a sex scene. And the presence of said sex scene didn't traumatize me or anything; I mostly just didn't understand it. Certainly not worth preventing me from having access to that book in its entirety over!
The discussion noted that the book discussed using "toys". They also noted that there was an add for buying sex toys as part of the book. These are elements that really caught my attention.
I have a hard time seeing most parents in the US being ok with this material being put in front of kids who are 5-10 years old.
But when you dig a little farther most of that stuff's usually handled just fine at the school or district level. There's very little justification for involving state or even county level government in addressing things like inappropriate lessons or content, because they do happen but are not an actual systemic problem because they're already dealt with by the existing, very-local systems.
If you want to prevent any "sexualization" content from reaching your young readers, you pretty much have to limit them to Go Dog Go.
* e.g. the book my mom made me read about how our bodies change during puberty.
This raises the question of what is material considered sexually explicit. Do you have the title and author of this book?
There isn't widespread agreement. That's how we got here. Parents are disagreeing with teachers as to what material they want in front of their kids.
The book I referred to earlier described using sex toys and had an add to get them. This is in a library for kids aged 5-10ish. People were arguing in support of the book being in that library.
Who gets to choose what's appropriate?
the overwhelming impetus and application of laws like this is to prevent religious autocratic conservative parents' kids from learning the actual nature of the secular (i.e real) humanist world,
most typically through canon and contemporary literature which does its job: illuminating the human condition, and the hypocrisy venality ignorance brutality and rigidity of people exactly like those who oppose such illumination.
Been telling my friends who e.g. foolishly moved to Austin or Florida chasing the "nest Silicon Valley": if you intend to, or have, kids, GTFO now. The descent of Texas and Florida into autocratic christofascism continues and raising a child, especially a young woman, there, would be actual hell
This isn't about Governor approval. This was approved by the legislature and signed into law by the governor. Not a mandate by them.
The context of all of this is teachers putting books in front of kids that their parents don't approve of.
I'm not in Florida but I'll give you a local example to me that's come under debate. A book with sexually explicit material was recently pulled from an elementary school. Kids 10-ish and under. sex education doesn't come until the end of elementary school. If I understand it right, this was not an education book.
There is debate over whether this should be in the school and there are parents, politicians, and teachers on both sides of this.
What got Florida to this point is worth exploring and discussing. No matter what side you're on.