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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
On the Kobo store, 'A Court Of Thorns And Roses' is classified as Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fiction & Literature. It is not in the Erotica section. Amazon classifies it as Fantasy Romance, Epic Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy.
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How the book is "classified" means nothing. It's its content that matters. I haven't read
A Court of Thorns and Roses, but I have scanned another of Maas' books. If this one is the same or similar than it's smut. Not suitable for a 14 year-old child and definitely not something that should be in a school library.
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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
You may think the books are in bad taste, but that doesn't make them pornographic. If Utah's school libraries actually did contain erotica, then parents would have a stronger case to make in favour of removing the books, but the solution in that case would be to discipline the librarians who put such books on the shelves, rather than to impose book bans.
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I'm not going to quibble over pornographic vs "bad taste" or "erotica." When sexual acts are described in the detail that they were described in the book I scanned, whether it's smut, porno, erotica, "in bad taste" or however you want to describe it, it definitely is not something that should be available to a 14 year-old child in their school library.
And, since school librarians seem to think this kind of smut is perfectly acceptable for children, what works better? Trusting them to do the right thing or banning books that shouldn't have been there in the first place? I'm guessing parents already went to their school librarians and were stone walled on this subject. Which is probably why the law was passed.