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Not Your Mother's Book Club

Kittens Challenge

Sexkittens_1Maryrose Wood's SEX KITTENS AND HORN DAWGS FALL IN LOVE,
which I have read and it is as squeaky clean as it could possibly be
(the title is just the names two posses of high schoolers use for themselves)
made it onto a list of ten books that a school board in Florida wants to ban from the high school library.

Details on Maryrose's blog, and there's more at the AS IF! site, with smart commentary by Rosemary Graham.

Maryrose writes:
People sometimes assume that these sorts of ban attempts arise "naturally" from conservative parents, but this incident is a great example of how that's not always the case: a conservative radio station instigated this by calling a school board member to complain about the school's book order. She then went to some of the fundamentalist websites that list "books that should be banned" and used that to make a list. No one read the books, no one researched the books, the head of the school board, the school principal and librarian all opposed it, but with TV cameras running this school board got manipulated by fundamentalist media forces outside their own community into striking these ten books from the high school library's purchase order until they could be reviewed by "a committee."