"That Book's So Dirty, I'm Keeping It Forever"

Meet JoAn Karkos.

A Lewiston [Maine] woman who was upset by the content of an acclaimed sex education book published 14 years ago has checked out copies from two libraries and refuses to give them back."Since I have been sufficiently horrified of the illustrations and the sexually graphic, amoral abnormal contents, I will not be returning the books," JoAn Karkos wrote the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries last month. Each letter was accompanied by a check for $20.95 to cover the cost of the book, "It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health."

The laugh-out-loud part:

Both libraries have ordered replacements for the books Karkos took. Speer [the library director in Lewiston] ordered two more copies because of an increase in requests for the book after the (local) Sun Journal published a letter from Karkos condemning the book.

My guess is that Karkos will soon sue for the removal of the library boss, arguing that the name Speer clearly evokes highly indecent phallic imagery.

Comments

[fish]

phallic imagery.....

That does it......I'm boycotting this blog!

[David Hardy]

Actually the name "Speer" might equally well be related to "sphere," the only object in the universe that cannot be a phallic symbol.

[Martin Owens]

This is nothing new.

There are self appointed censors everywhere, and their tactic of lifting library books to deny their message to others is an old story.

The PC left has been at it for years, but much more quietly than the Pecksniffs and holy rollers.

[Rogier]

>> The PC left has been at it for years, but much more quietly than the Pecksniffs and holy rollers. <<

Martin:

There's no love lost between me and the PC left, but the enthusiastic censoring of controversial books (and their wholesale theft from libraries) seems to me to be mostly the province of all manner of religious zealots on the right. I could be wrong, but I don't recall one censorious protest after another against even dishonest right-wing tripe like the kind secreted by the Bill O'Reillys and Sean Hannitys of this world. I'm definitely not on the left politically, but the notion that the left seeks to censor and 'disappear' books as much as the Ralph Reed / James Dobson crowd just seems erroneous.

[Martin Owens]

Well Rogier, I'll just keep it in mind and send you the clipping next time some self-appointed civil rights " leader" tries to get Huckleberry Finn off the shelves because it uses the word " nigger".

Or the next time the San Francisco library "cleans house" and perfectly good adventure books like "Treasure Island" are tossed to make way for "modern", "relevant" dreck...
Believe me it won't be long. The buggers are everywhere.

And my point is the PC left is often already in positions of influence and power, particularly in places like libraries and universities and the education racket generally, so they don't have to make any noise to get what they want. It's what makes them dangerous.