Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
by kelipso on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:31AM
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Isn't there a lot of literature about how kids exposed to sexually explicit material go on to do risky sexual behavior as teens and do them earlier? Also about abusers literally grooming kids for sex by showing them porn? Pretty sure all this was standard discourse at least since the early 2000s.
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Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
by wizofaus on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:53AM
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I didn't ask about sexually explicit material though - "explicit" and "suggestive" are quite different. My expectation is that most kids (below the age of 12 or so) wouldn't even recognise a lot of sexually suggestive language for what it was anyway.
Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
by kelipso on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:21AM
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They're banning sexually explicit books aren't they, so I'm talking about that.
Re:Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
by wizofaus on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:56PM
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The only book I saw mentioned
that may be considered sexually explicit was one about a boy suffering rape and incest. I'd accept it's probably not appropriate for a school library to have a book like that freely available to students of all ages. But I don't get the impression that's a representative sample.