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Originally Posted by rcentros
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.
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Margaret Atwood's novel deals with online child pornography and gore videos. And even that in morally ambiguous way. It really has no place in school libraries.
I see reason in the bans, it's media outlets and certain individuals that tend to cry censorship without a thought, and are not capable of looking at the issue from the other side. Where would we be without restrains?