[bksvol-discuss] Re: A book I want to sumbit, Adult content?

  • From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:03:12 -0500

Hi all,
Liz, if we go by your very cogent thinking, I can live with it. So long as the synopses clearly indicate what the book is about, then we've done our job. It is, as you so rightly say, up to parents and teachers to teach teens discrimination. I have never, ever been for censorship. I do think that there are some books which should be read and discussed with adults by children, but that's me.
the problem comes when kids aren't taught discrimination. they read everything, but they can't or don't have the opportunity to discuss what they read. How does this affect their understanding and their thinking?
However, you are right that it is not a library's task to teach discrimination. That is somebody else's job and if we clearly label our books, we can do no more. 

As I say, I'm willing to retract my view of tabu books with Liz's proviso.

Ann P.

Original message:

I'd go

back to the earlier discussion: if a teen could go into a large

bookstore and have access and buy this book, or could go into a large
library and check it out, then it should not be in the adult content
section. It's not even like the gratuitous sex scenes in so many
bodice-ripper novels that aren't marked adult content. Basically, I side
with label it with explicit sex in both short and long summaries, and leave
decision making and values to the parent, the teacher, or whomever. It is
not our right to be censors, that's up to parents and teachers.



Liz in Portland




Liz Halperin
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