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All I know is my mom never tried to censor my reading. And she could have very easily done so, I grew up in a small town (the same small town my mom grew up in) and my mom either knew or was related to (or both) absolutely everyone. She was also friends with both the school librarian and the librarian for our branch of the county library system.
I read everything from the complete spectrum of Lang fairy books, to "The Happy Hooker". (No, I am NOT kidding, however, I've never been completely certain if Mom knew I read that last one... )
I never really censored my daughter's reading either; though I did put my foot down over R.L. Stine, because they caused nightmares (after she had the first nightmare, I read one of the books and had nightmares of my own, and banned them for that reason); but now that the kids' father and I are divorced, and our son lives with his dad and grandparents, they are a lot stricter about what he can read. For example, he isn't allowed to read Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, as his dad believes they are anti-Christian. (I read and enjoyed the books, myself, and don't see that they'd do Jay any harm, he's 14), but his house, his rules, you know?
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