Comments on: Saw sex book by mistake; $10K apiece demanded

By: Cricket

Cricket — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:26:33 +0000

Our library in the liberal 70s kept such items under lock and key and ONLY with
a legitimate ID showing the bearer to be OVER 21
could such material be accessed. The library?
Named after John Steinbeck, noted supporter of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

That also inclued Ms magazine.

By: David

David — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:52:01 +0000

It is a book. From reading the amazon review, it doesn’t sound nearly as explicit as stuff like the Joy of Sex, which I believe many libraries have. Maybe some patrons asked for it? Anyway, I think the library should try to provide a wide range of books. As long as it isn’t pronographic in its sexual depictions, then no harm.

But me and my coworkers did get a good laught out the sleepless nights quote also! I can just imagine!

I mean, 14 and 16! Come on, the dad should feel sorry for putting his boys through this shame. I can just imagine their friends teasing them “Can’t stand to look at a girl huh?” I hope they get nothing, the libraries need money and should be spending it to placate people who can’t be bothered to just talk to their children as opposed to assuming their children will never see anything they dissaprove of.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:50:29 +0000

Geez, no one has grasped the real question here. Why should a public library even keep such excrement on its shelves?

By: Supremacy Claus

Supremacy Claus — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:09:43 +0000

This claim has merit.

It should be joined by the huge class of little kids getting indoctrinated in their junior high school health classes, on the proper techniques of anal sex.

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:45:52 +0000

Teen-age boys accidentally finding books in the library on sex belongs on the same list with unicorns and leprechauns.

By: Miles Gordon

Miles Gordon — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:35:30 +0000

Any 14 or 16 year-old boy who is so offended by images of the nature described needs some serious therapy.

What sore of sheltered lives have these poor lads been living?

By: Velkrin

Velkrin — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:10:40 +0000

I can’t stop laughing at the “many sleepless nights” quote.

By: jb

jb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:50:35 +0000

Traumatized is hardly the word, although they may indeed have spent sleepless nights because of this book.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:32:55 +0000

I think someone needs to teach these boys how the Dewey Decimal System works. Our local library used to have an adult section until people started complaining that it was a form of censorship and caused embarassment to ask for the key to the room.