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Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.

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[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Show me the page. You can't because it doesn't exist.

[–] cricket97@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://data.ibtimes.sg/en/full/52824/gender-queer.jpg?w=813

top right. its uncensored in the book just couldn't find a pic from a quick google. interested to hear you response when being shown something that doesn't exist apparently

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Once again you've left out critical information. Let me put this in a bulleted list.

  • The censorship is hiding an important detail: the presence of a strap on. This means that the scene does not contain, as you put it, "sucking dick".
  • The scene depicted is described in an intentionally unsexy way, as it turns out this isn't actually what the protagonist wants.
  • The entire point of showing this is that it's the catalyst for the protagonist realizing that they are asexual. While it can be argued that it is unnecessary for this to happen on page, the fact remains that this book is intended for an audience that already knows what sex is. Nobody is putting this book in elementary schools.
  • There is a big difference between sex happening and literal porn. If there wasn't, a shit ton of nature documentaries would be x-rated.
  • The scene in question is 2 panels long. This is the entirety of it. This is the equivalent of the scene in The Shining, which 1. many people miss on a first viewing, and 2. fittingly enough is also depicted in an intentionally unsexy way.

But if all you care about is surface level bullshit and not the actual content of the story, then sure. We should totally Think of the Children^TM , who totally have no idea that sex exists by the time they reach a grade level that would be carrying this graphic novel (high school, ffs!), which is absolutely a part of the curriculum and not something that they check out of the library of their own free will./s