[bksvol-discuss] Re: "Adult" books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:53:21 -0800 (PST)
David, no one at bookshare is censoring anything.
Everything that is submitted and properly validated is
accepted. The only thing that is happening is that
some books are identified as Adult. Readers like Patti
who don't care to read books with profanity or graphic
sex or violence indicate that on their applications
and they aren't given those titles to see when they
check the collection.
Also, children under the age of 18 don't see those
titles either, though their parents could probably get
the books for them. A couple of us have suggested that
maybe the age limit could be lowered to 16.
A couple of us have also suggested maybe the Adult
rating could be eliminated and instead ratings such as
are used for movies could be put next to the title --
that everyone could see all books. An alternative to a
rating system might be to have a space similar to the
short and long synopsis spaces wherein one could write
that the book contains profanity, graphic sex,
violence, etc. I do put that in my long synopsis as a
warning.
Cindy
-- David <davidc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I, personally, disagree with sensorship. I agree
> that parents have the
> right, and the responsibility, to do their best to
> instill values in their
> children. However, once a person is an adult, any
> attempt for one group to
> tell another others what they can and cannot read is
> not acceptable.
> Besides, who makes the decisions? What if, though
> you agree with their
> decisions currently, they eventually start sensoring
> ideas which you hold
> dear? For example, what if it is decided that
> because the bible has many
> descriptions of sex and violence, it is band?
>
> Please, please, please remember that one of our
> strengths is that we value
> the free exchange of ideas.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Patti Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:23 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] "Adult" books
>
> I know I will be in the minority on this, but why is
> it we need to have
> Adult ratings for books and/or movies? Because our
> society thinks it is
> just fine to spew out foul language, authors think
> there is nothing wrong
> with describing love scenes in the most explicit
> detail. Why? Two things I
>
> heard when I was younger have never left me. One
> was from my history
> teacher in the 8th grade. He said if a person has
> to swear, that means they
>
> have a very limited vocabulary. Amen. And, as a
> young adult I went to hear
>
> Paul Harvey speak and he asked why do we guard our
> children from such
> things, bad language, violence, explicit sex, yet we
> think it is okay as
> adults to digest all this? Why is it okay? I guess
> I wish for an
> idealistic existence which will never happen, but I
> sure don't appreciate
> any of that in my life, I will not read books that
> have this type of content
>
> in them, nor will I watch a movie with such a rating
> that I know it is full
> of what I know will be offensive. Yes, it's a free
> country, I do know that
> but I just don't know why it has to be deemed
> acceptable that we hear and
> see unnecessary stuff like this; there has to be
> other ways to express
> ourselves. Okay, I'll hush now. Just had to
> express my opinion. Back
> under my desk I go.
> Patti
>
> You can't bounce the bounce if you can't pronounce
> the bounce. --From The
> Tigger Movie
>
>
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