These articles never seem to include excerpts from said books. This is not sex-ed books they’re banning. There’s quite graphic depictions of acts of sex in these. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not want literal children to read that kind of stuff.
If a highschool student cannot be instructed on Shakespeare without it being a crime, the law is too far gone to be reasonable in anyway. The same goes for Brave New World and A Handmaid’s Tale. There are graphic depictions of sex in many major works of literature and we need to quit pretending teenagers don’t know what sex is or that reading about it will indelibly harm them.
These articles never seem to include excerpts from said books. This is not sex-ed books they’re banning. There’s quite graphic depictions of acts of sex in these. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not want literal children to read that kind of stuff.
If a highschool student cannot be instructed on Shakespeare without it being a crime, the law is too far gone to be reasonable in anyway. The same goes for Brave New World and A Handmaid’s Tale. There are graphic depictions of sex in many major works of literature and we need to quit pretending teenagers don’t know what sex is or that reading about it will indelibly harm them.