There is a big difference between placing a book out of reach for the general public and removing a book from reading lists that are required of adolescents.
If you do not have adolescents of your own or work with them, you are probably unaware of how much our young people are being over-sexualized. You may be seeing prudery here, but I see an effort to pull education back from the precipice. For the sake of our entire society, we adults need to once again model and encourage behavior that shows respect for human sexuality rather than exploiting and cheapening it.
Prude is a word made up by the immoral to soothe their conscience.
Well said. It seems that too many are at the stage of "well, they're going to do it anyway, so what's the big deal"? That kind of giving up will only lead to more problems.
Yes, *some* teens have sex - but certainly not all of them, and there's certainly no point in advertising that it's a "common" thing.