California Parents Object to New Health Book That Includes Oral Sex, Bondage, Drug Use

Christian Post ^ | 08/13/2014 | Stephanie Samuel

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Parents in Fremont, California, are pushing their school district to remove a health book with sections about oral sex, bondage and drug use from local high schools, saying there is no way the publishers can adapt the adult content featured in the book.

The Fremont Unified School District purchased the textbook, Your Health Today, over the summer to be taught in its six high schools. After overwhelming response from parents, Superintendent Jim Morris offered to have the books amended. However concerned parents want the books pulled from shelves because of its adult subject matter.

"My thinking, and the parents were thinking with me, that there's no way they can amend this book. Its got so much adult content in this book; how can they remove everything?" Asfia Ahmed told The Christian Post. Ahmed is one of the parents behind the Protect Fremont Children petition against the books.

The petition explains that the textbook "exposes youth to sexual games, sexual fantasies, sexual bondage with handcuffs, ropes, and blindfolds, sexual toys and vibrator devices, and additional instruction that is extremely inappropriate for 13 and 14 year-old youth."

Ahmed said she and other parents welcome sex education. However, she worries that the "Your Health Today" book goes to extremes and gives young adults the impression that those behaviors are typical.

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Does the school library include an adult books and DVD section?

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