Posted on 01/05/2023 6:41:04 PM PST by algore
The author of a book which was pulled from schools across the US over its description of a sex act between two 10-year-old boys has said it was never intended for young children.
Lawn Boy, a 2018 novel by Jonathan Evison, drew national attention in 2021 after it was found in school libraries despite scenes that parents labeled 'pedophilic'.
School districts in at least 12 states removed the book from libraries because of the controversial passages.
The passages included descriptions of a sexual encounter between two fourth-grade boys at a church youth-group meeting.
Evison told The Washington Post the book was never intended to be placed in school libraries.
His comments appeared in a Post article which said schools banned the book because 'a mom wrongly said the book showed pedophilia'.
The article referred to comments by a mother from Virginia who wrongly told a school board meeting the book depicts a sexual encounter between a man and a ten-year-old boy
The Post reported that an analysis found Lawn Boy's use in libraries was challenges in at least 35 school districts.
Some 63 percent of those later returned the books to shelves, while at least four maintained the bans.
Some school districts may have selected the book for their libraries after the American Library Association gave it an award in 2019 for its 'special appeal to young adults'.
A synopsis of the book notes: 'Lawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself
Lawn boy was one of two books returned to library shelves in Virginia in November 2021 after removal following complaints by parents.
The other was Gender Queer: A Memoir, which includes photos of sexual activity between a boy and a man
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One day soon these freaks will be running for their lives.
I look forward to that day.
L
So, regardless, you’re a pedophile.
From your lips to Dan Wesson's ear.
Indeed. Its gone FAR beyond “live and let live.”
its a kind of twisted, totalitarian ideology being forced upon the country
Child pornography is illegal, isn’t it?
I know the author of a novel that has a lesbian heroine. She never meant the book to be for children. It was written for adults. It keeps getting put into Young Adult (i.e. High School) library list. The author is somewhat upset about this
Hmm...never meant for libraries? Should have never been made. Should have never even been thought of.
Disgusting.
It was meant for perverts who think about such disgusting things.
Extraordinary.
Back in 2013, this sort of story would have gotten thousands of replies here within a few hours. Today, it may not get 50. Not because we don't care, but because it is so common place for this kind of evil to exist in the mainstream it is no longer shocking even to us.
Let me be clear. My screen name is like Jonathan Swift. Damn these people to where they should be.
Unbelievable
“The author is somewhat upset about this.”
What did she think was going to happen?
L
“but because it is so common place for this kind of evil to exist in the mainstream it is no longer shocking even to us.”
The Overton Window. It’s a real thing.
L
She just did not think the book, which is quite violent would get pushed onto 13 year olds. It is not a children’s book.
How about we just DO NOT publish smut like that (except, maybe, in Ukraine)?
Why was it written then in the first place?
Of course that was its intended target audience.
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The sense I get is that it never even occurred to him it would end up in school libraries.
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