NEWS: How to Hide a Book Like a Puritan

And, when the mayor mentioned it to his kids, they were like "Jenna Jameson? Dad, she's not a porn star - look at your collection and compare it to <our neighbor's>. She's a blowhard, and not in the good way."

I think the first time I encountered anything with sex-that-was-weird(bad) was in Stephen Donaldson's Whitegold wielder (One Ring? That sounds tolkien) thing, where there's a lot of issues about the protaganist involved in rape (?).

It was in the high school library - it's been awhile, but it turned me off the rest of his books (post-Mirror). If I had been told I wasn't old enough to read it, or wasn't mature enough, I probably would've read the whole thing, to see what they were griping about.

Okay, unless you glued some kids copy of Halo2 to a book you didn't want them to see or read, there is a very slim chance they will pay any mind to it.

In England we're doing no better, the extremeist right are trying to censure everything they can lay their hands on.

At the nonent "Gerry Springer the musica" has them up in arms.

But at least they've left D&D and Heavy Metal alone for a bit, although Harry Potter is still taking a battering in some circles.

Anyone else read "Farenheight 451" recently (sighs).

I can see who's been watching those Rocco videos !

Doesn't surprise me, but it still sucks.

"It's for the children" Fuck you, it's censorship. It's quite easy to keep little kids away from the adult books. It's called actually paying attention to where the hell your kids are. And most libraries have a kid's room or at least a kid's section.

As for the nudity, there are lots of photography books and national geographic stuff with nudity. No one hides those. If you're trying to keep teenagers from looking at nudie pictures, then I'd say you're pretty stupid, because that's about as lost as a cause can get.

what i don't get is what exactly are they worried about.
1.is the librarian is going to hand over a book that looks like this:

to billy joe or bobby sue when they're at the checkout counter, while they're getting a copy of grapes of wrath for english class?
or
2. is billy joe or bobby sue going to grab it off the shelf, shuffle off to a quiet corner of the library and rub one out?

i also notice that they don't call it by it's entire title, "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: a Cautionary Tale! Maybe they're concerned that little billy joe or bobby sue will read it, get scarred for life, and won't grow up and be the next queen of dp.

[Edited on Jan 10, 2005 by funkmonkey]