Posted on 11/22/2009 1:35:43 PM PST by Steelfish
Teen Sex Magazine to Stay on Shelves at Iowa Library Sunday, November 22, 2009
AMES, Iowa — A teen sex magazine will stay on the shelves at the Ames Public Library despite a petition signed by more than 100 parents objecting to the publication.
The Ames Library Board voted 6-1 to support library Director Art Weeks' recommendation to keep the magazine Sex, Ect., in the teen section.
The magazine is written by and for teens under the oversight of Answer, a national sexuality organization at Rutgers University. It addresses teen sexuality issues, substance abuse and eating disorders.
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The Nanny State is distributing the smut
Wow, excellent argument, there. Because that’s what we’ve all been saying. /sarc
Perhaps, but do you really want each person in the community to have the power to pul items that they deem to be inappropriate off the library shelf?
If that is the case, the libraries would have no books.
I am not a reader of “gayme magazine,” but if you or other readers of “gayme magazine” want it to be in the library, you should make a request.
Or if after reading several issues of “gayme magazine,” you do not wish for it to be in the library, you can send your objections to the American Library Association.
Actually, there was a poster the suggested that the library be burned.
I have a feeling that some current First Amendment supporters might change their tune if a librarian started stocking the shelves with The Turner Diaries, White Supremacist magazines, and Christian Identity works.
All libraries practice censorship, in the sense that not every published item can be stocked, and somebody has to decide what to stock and what not to stock. The real question is who gets to make those decisions.
Is this "ANSWER" the same organization that marched with a banner proclaiming, "We'll support our troops when they FRAG their officers?"
They're just another batch of inbreed, mouthbreathing freaks.
I have three kids, two of which are of reading age and the the two that do read are very academically successful.
Part of their success I attribute to our encouragement of reading and never objecting to a book that they wish to read.
In our home, we have a library that contains thousands of books ranging from my undergrad and graduate school texts, my wife’s undergrad and law school texts and thousands of books we have each collected and read over the years. Many of those books are political, some very conservative and some very liberal.
In our home there are lots of books and no TV!
Ever since my oldest was four or five we make a family outing to a book store at least once a month and each of us buys at least one book. In all of those trips, we have never had to object to a book that one of the kids picked.
I can trust what they elect to read and with the one that is of college age, I have to right to object to what he reads.
And both these kids are very bright, they get most of that intelligence from their mother, but their love for reading is what has helped them the most.
They both read and understood Joyce’s “Ulysses” while in the early years of high school. That book damn near kicked my butt as a senior in college.
It is strange, my 19 year old son and 14 year old daughter discuss “Ulysses” at the dinner table, and delve very deep into the subject matter.
So yes, we have an open book policy and it has worked out well.
“All libraries practice censorship, in the sense that not every published item can be stocked, and somebody has to decide what to stock and what not to stock. “
They totally control the library association. Picking and choosing a collection of materials in library is supposed to be based on some principal and public health would be one. Serving up porn to kids is not exactly healthy and the parents know best and they should be respected about that. If a parent wants to dish porn to their kids, do it on their own dime and don’t bother the whole community with the problem.
Not me.
So where’s the line? Should Playboy’s fifty year anthology be on the shelf in the stacks? How about Madonna’s “Sex?” Picture books of hard-core gay midget porn where anyone may peruse it?
Is your philosophy “anything goes?”
I don't think anyone here is saying "raising this child responsibly is too hard..."
I think they're saying "If that pervert in the dirty rain coat tries to come near my child, I'll kill him."
Can you hear us now?
No...not a reader...but you might have at least looked it up before you approve of it being in libraries...
“gayme” is the NAMBLA magazine....
Maybe ask the wife how she feels about the “protocols of the elders of Zoin” being available for teens check out to read without their parents approval...
Or perhaps the “turner diaries”....light reading for the impressionable teen...
“I have a feeling that some current First Amendment supporters might change their tune if a librarian started stocking the shelves with The Turner Diaries, White Supremacist magazines, and Christian Identity works.
Not me.”
Ok then...Turner diaries A-ok with trumandogz...
Check.
Which either means...
A)you dont know what the “turner diaries” are...
or
B) you are simply an educated idiot.
Yes, but perhaps not in the stacks, but rather behind the library counter.
So, according to you, if someone in Ames, Iowa were to get 100 people to sign a petition to remove Sarah Palin's book "Going Rouge" from the library shelves, the book should therefore be removed?
Yes, but they may want to keep that one behind the counter so that it can only be checked out by adults.
And simply because someone reads a book such as the "Turner Diaries" does not mean that they are likely to become a terrorist, killing people and overthrowing the federal government.
And while I never did read the "Turner Diaries" I did as a pre-teen read "In Cold Blood" and managed to live the last 34 years of my life without murdering a family in a Kansas Farmhouse.
I disagree but I do think they need more than 100 signatures to make it stick.
Excusing our culture war excesses with the notion that the parents can simply handle it all is nonsense.
I have 5 kids, it is a constant battle to confront the barrage of junk thrown at your kids and the PC garbage they get hit with at schools from indoctrinators.
If a community does not like this junk in their library then they have the right to oppose and remove it with enough folks taking action.
In a liberal area like Marin county they might love it and the majority would rule but in McMinnville Tn maybe not.
That is the proper course of freedom as determined by local standards.
So would you like to make a list of books and subject matter that should be banned from libraries?
If so, can I also make a list of books that should be banned from libraries?
After that, can my lesbian neighbors also make such a list.
And then the local atheists, Muslim Radical, Communist Professor, radical feminists, Christian Conservatives, Neo-Nazis, Black Radicals, Latino Activists, Republican Chairman and Democratic Chairman can all make lists of books that they feel should be banned from the library.
LOL...he has plenty of standards when it comes to seeing white on black racism which he views as pervasive.
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