Mom: Son in 'extensive therapy' after viewing library book

Florida Freedom Newspapers ^ | 7/5/10 | Brian Hughes

[hinckley buzzard]

“Now he’s in a home for extensive therapy,” she said.

Oh. My. God. And this poor kid is a teenager no less. He's probably seen far worse on the internet. I smell crazy mother here.

[wolfcreek]

http://www.manga.com/

I browsed through a bit and didn't see anything that would put anyone in therapy/

[JenB]

I live in the same county. Crestview, where the mom lives, is notorious for ... really stupid people stuff. It’s like Rio Linda that Rush is always mocking. You hear about people passing out drunk in the Whattaburger drivethrough lane at 2 am in Crestview. It’s the meth and stupid capital of the area.

This mom is nuts if she’s suing the library over a book her son stole.

[DJ MacWoW]

Google or Bing hentai. And be ready as it’s not ordinary comic book (manga) stuff.

[hinckley buzzard]

The American Library Association is very pro-pornography. Patriotic materials, not so much. You go to your local library and ask about adult materials.

[DJ MacWoW]

Manga is simply comics books. Hentai is violent/graphic comics. Hentai depicts dismembered women and their “dates” etc.

[DJ MacWoW]

Google hentai. Manga is Flash Gordon. Hentai is Flesh Gordon with a chainsaw.

[Little Ray]

Darn. I was figurin’ this poor kid got hold of something from the Miskatonic University Library Restricted Stacks.

[paudio]

I don’t either, but if some materials are deemed only for 18+ by law, I don’t see why library shouldn’t put any restriction on those.

[Richard Kimball]

Sounds like something a bit more powerful than Catcher in the Rye.

Probably the tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs.

Seriously, some of the adult Japanese cartoons are bizarre and sick. If a book store or magazine stand would be arrested for for selling it, the library should not be making it available to minors. That said, I don't care what the lady claims, no relatively sane person will need to be in extensive therapy simply because of one book.

[LearsFool]

It’s the meth and stupid capital of the area.

That would seem to fit with the hardcore cartoon smut their library is peddling to anyone who can reach the top shelf.

[aruanan]

“My son lost his mind when he found this,” Barbaree said of the manga book from which her examples were taken.

Maybe the manga manifested the ancient Japanese porn penchant for overendowing its male characters to the point of requiring a small wheel barrow to transport their lust-enlarged members to the site of sexual congress and the boy felt hopelessly inadequate, being unable, at his young age, at distinguishing fantasy from reality.

On the other hand, maybe it was the Japanese version of R. Crumb's Zap Comix from the late 1960's.

[ottbmare]

I don’t believe censorship has any place in the library. If someone doesn’t want to see a book then they don’t have to take it out. They can leave it on the shelf for the next person.

I don't believe censorship has any place in the public library either, but by the same token I don't want my tax dollars going to buy pornographic crap.

Censorship is when the government forbids people to read certain books. It is not censorship when a government entity declines to spend public funds to buy certain books.

[houeto]

I'll admit to being clueless about "Manga" novels, but "extensive therapy" really??????

BS meter is pegged out!

[DCPatriot]

She’s put a bullseye on her back for the anti-home-schoolers ...figuratively speaking of course.

[JenB]

Trust me I know what hentai is - I’m an anime/manga fan and I need to know how to avoid hentai, yaoi, yuri, and other lovely stuff like that.

Not saying that it should be in a library at all, but if the kid stole the book from the adult section, then I think he and his mom are more to blame than the library.

[JenB]

All I can say is their branch of the library must have a heck of a lot more cash than mine here in the south part of the county, I can’t find new science fiction on the shelves let alone hentai. Sheesh.

Anyway without knowing what the manga is I’m not sure it would be hentai. It’s possible it’s one of the more disturbing graphic novels that aren’t sexually explicit - there are plenty of those. It’s sort of an important detail...

[katana]

not unusual for adults to read Manga in Japan

Very common and much of the material is (within the rather odd, to most westerners, Japanese standards for what is considered "obscene") very violent and sexually oriented. While the text is in Japanese the art work tends to be very stylistic and I think that's what makes it attractive to western teenagers. But I would tend to agree that this kid (and/or his mommy) must have some preexisting "issues".

[Theo]

Sounds like the boy stole the book. Am I reading that right?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Anyway without knowing what the manga is I’m not sure it would be hentai. It’s possible it’s one of the more disturbing graphic novels that aren’t sexually explicit - there are plenty of those. It’s sort of an important detail...

Yeah, the fact that the actual title of the manga in question is scrupulously avoided throughout this story raises my suspicions, as well. (I mean, "manga" could just as easily mean Pokemon, for pity's sake...!) ;)