A former coworker of mine is attempting to get The Sweet Life of Stella Madison banned from their school library.

In the days of Kindles and Internet rule 34, why bother? Just move to Iran where you can get everything censored for you.

what a hard-on was and what to do when you got your period.

Two questions, one answer.

I think I've entered the "Not clicking on any more Mail Online" links phase of my life. They're never worth the effort.

Throw that onto the pile with WND, American Thinker and the other hurrdurr sites and The Singularity approaches.

3 books of this crap.



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/Rollin' old school.

I read and re-read that book many times as a 6th grader. Never ate any worms though.

I've read some negative opinions about To Kill a Mockingbird, on Fark if you can believe it, but most of them ranged from it's a childish story to it was written by Truman Capote and anything in between but none of them, even the worst opinions of the book, called for it to banninated or burned. I can't imagine not wanting to falcon punch anyone who advocated for it being burned or banned.

Helpful parenting tip: If you don't want your children to learn the facts of life from YA books, you need to explain things to them first.

Taikoluigi: Forgive my ignorance, but what's so bad about Brave New World? I've never read it.

Drug use, free love, contraception, out of wedlock births....any one of which would give a Thumper the vapors.

While books can teach young adults serious life issues like sexuality and the like, they can also help teach some sense of adventure. I'm old so my thoughts might be outdated but I think reading the Great Brain and the Mad Scientists club when I was about 10 years old helped me develop a sense of adventure and the acceptance that using the mind is a good thing. It was easily as beneficial as reading the Fear of Flying and without the uncomfortable boner all the time.

Teenage girls are good for one thing; penetration.

rudemix: While books can teach young adults serious life issues like sexuality and the like, they can also help teach some sense of adventure. I'm old so my thoughts might be outdated but I think reading the Great Brain and the Mad Scientists club when I was about 10 years old helped me develop a sense of adventure and the acceptance that using the mind is a good thing. It was easily as beneficial as reading the Fear of Flying and without the uncomfortable boner all the time.

For me it was Encyclopedia Brown, as well as the works of Gordon Korman and John Bellairs.

StrikitRich: Taikoluigi: Forgive my ignorance, but what's so bad about Brave New World? I've never read it.

Drug use, free love, contraception, out of wedlock births....any one of which would give a Thumper the vapors.

Thanks.

Apparently I read the wrong Judy Blume books. I read Frecklejuice, Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, etc. but remember no sex or period talk.

And parents care about this? I was reading Anne Rice novels at 11 because I liked vampires and read a romance novel at 13 (though the plot was boring, so I skipped to the good parts). My mom didn't care. Hell as a pre-teen I read this book that was about a serial killer raping young girls then putting a pickaxe through their eyes (the heroine escape even though she had a prosthetic leg...yeah) and it was specifically young adult (and boring). As a teen I liked darker books and Issac Asimov more, but as a pre-teen I read the sex books our of curiosity. It didn't harm me at all or turn me into a deviant.

Honestly I'd rather kids read about this stuff then watch it on television. Imagination is a great thing and usually age appropriate. I remember reading the romance novel and giggling because I didn't understand most of it, but if I saw it on television it would have been awkward I think to my young mind. If anything in a book ever made me uncomfortable I would just skip that section. When I re-read the book later in life I wouldn't skip the sections. It is much harder to un-see a video.

fruitloop: 3 books of this crap.

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I cannot take any book written in comic sans seriously. Even if only partially.

hobblekitty: I am sure any women of a certain age will tell you that "Forever" by Judy Blume wa the porn of their youth. And "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret" while outdated by this point (sanitary belts anyone?) I would recommend it for any girl who is beginning puberty.

Now, I don't know about a book written in nothing but text shorthand, I can't help but think I would get a headache just trying to read a whole book written that way. Does it have it's own glossary like "A Clockwork Orange"? *sigh* I really am getting old.

Re Belt: She updated this in more recent editions to reflect current technology.

Orgasmatron138: rudemix: While books can teach young adults serious life issues like sexuality and the like, they can also help teach some sense of adventure. I'm old so my thoughts might be outdated but I think reading the Great Brain and the Mad Scientists club when I was about 10 years old helped me develop a sense of adventure and the acceptance that using the mind is a good thing. It was easily as beneficial as reading the Fear of Flying and without the uncomfortable boner all the time.

For me it was Encyclopedia Brown, as well as the works of Gordon Korman and John Bellairs.


For me it was these guys

fruitloop: 3 books of this crap.



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Some of those texts look longer than 140 characters.

hobblekitty: fruitloop: 3 books of this crap.

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I cannot take any book written in comic sans seriously. Even if only partially.

rudemix: While books can teach young adults serious life issues like sexuality and the like, they can also help teach some sense of adventure. I'm old so my thoughts might be outdated but I think reading the Great Brain and the Mad Scientists club when I was about 10 years old helped me develop a sense of adventure and the acceptance that using the mind is a good thing. It was easily as beneficial as reading the Fear of Flying and without the uncomfortable boner all the time.

Oh, wow. The Mad Scientist's Club. One of my all-time faves. Thanks for the flashback!

Her books sound doubleplus good.

Orgasmatron138: Spade: The books are written entirely in instant message language.

Yeah, I'd ban that too.

Seconded.

Plus, it's a bit pretentious for a gimmick writer who may be a flash in the pan to compare herself to a fairly beloved figure of children's literature.

As a side note, one of the books that had a pretty profound effect on me as a kid was Misplaced Persons by Lee Harding. It was a.... I guess you'd say sci-fi story of a teenager who slips away from reality into a grayed-out existence where he can't communicate with anyone or interact physically with anything.

It's a really neat metaphor for teenage depression isolation.

I remember reading Misplaced Persons - forgot the name until now.

The Quartzsite Trip by William Hogan was another eye-opener for me at 13-ish.

StrikitRich: Taikoluigi: Forgive my ignorance, but what's so bad about Brave New World? I've never read it.

Drug use, free love, contraception, out of wedlock births....any one of which would give a Thumper the vapors.

Don't forget 2nd 3rd and 4th class citizens. Plus, iirc, the people that lived outside of 'the brave new world' were normal humans, had sex, and gave birth the normal way vs being decanted were referred as savages.

What a tween girl might look like.

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What a tween girl might look like.

What the hell year is that clip art from? She's rocking a sports cassette walkman for crissakes

NTTAWWT

downstairs: Wouldn't parents RATHER kids learn about sexuality from books or even porn? That way they don't have to have "the talk".

I know my parents did.

I had sex ed in school. My folks gave me a few books to read, but I don't recall them actually having the talk with me. I learned the important stuff from books, but the fun stuff from pron...which my dad unknowingly provided.

under a mountain: Orgasmatron138: rudemix: While books can teach young adults serious life issues like sexuality and the like, they can also help teach some sense of adventure. I'm old so my thoughts might be outdated but I think reading the Great Brain and the Mad Scientists club when I was about 10 years old helped me develop a sense of adventure and the acceptance that using the mind is a good thing. It was easily as beneficial as reading the Fear of Flying and without the uncomfortable boner all the time.

For me it was Encyclopedia Brown, as well as the works of Gordon Korman and John Bellairs.
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For me it was these guys

Nancy Drew.

A hard on and a period?

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/Rollin' old school.

LOVED that book... Absolutely!

downstairs: Wouldn't parents RATHER kids learn about sexuality from books or even porn? That way they don't have to have "the talk".

I know my parents did.

My parents offered to show me their own parts to teach me. I was the most mortified kid on the planet.

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What a tween girl might look like.

What the hell year is that clip art from? She's rocking a sports cassette walkman for crissakes

NTTAWWT

That is an example of what a Tween who got her sex ed from Forever might look like.

FirstNationalBastard: eltejon: hobblekitty: I am sure any women of a certain age will tell you that "Forever" by Judy Blume wa the porn of their youth. And "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret" while outdated by this point (sanitary belts anyone?) I would recommend it for any girl who is beginning puberty.

Now, I don't know about a book written in nothing but text shorthand, I can't help but think I would get a headache just trying to read a whole book written that way. Does it have it's own glossary like "A Clockwork Orange"? *sigh* I really am getting old.

Re Belt: She updated this in more recent editions to reflect current technology.

...the iPon, where you plug it in and it downloads your menstrual blood?

That sounds like it wouldn't be as messy as the current alternatives, so sign me up.

RedEmily: A hard on and a period?

I know this one...

jayhawk88: Taikoluigi: Forgive my ignorance, but what's so bad about Brave New World? I've never read it.

One of the main ideas of the book is that humanity in the future spends most of their leisure time getting high on Soma (not the painkiller, a more generic drug that gives them feelings of euphoria) and having casual sex with each other, often times in drug-induced orgies.

Of course it's also a pretty stark and surprisingly accurate portrayal of how a government could control all aspects of citizens lives; not with a fist, as in 1984, but with a "loving" hand (recreational drugs and sex, plentiful consumerism), which might be accepted gratefully by a weary populace, but I'm sure it's the farking that gets house frau's all worked up. Seriously though, this book should be on everyone's Must Read List, go get it.

I've been meaning to, anyways.

Dr._Michael_Hfuhruhurr: I remember getting my hands on a copy of "Wifey" when I was 13 or so. That book opened my eyes to the shananigans of the adult world. That book was hot from page one.

I seem to remember page 96 being particularly... inspiring.