[m00x]

Agreed, this is very politically charged. The method for qualifying a "banned book" is not described in detail and seems to only include those with a political lean, when there are obviously other books that aren't shown to kids that didn't make the list.

[giraffe_lady]

The system they're using is in their faq, in detail. Basically it is books that were previously available but have been removed due to external pressure.

[m00x]

So it's not really fair to say it's a ban. You can have the book at school, but the school library won't have it.

Would you agree for the school to have the book "The Passing of the Great Race", a famously racist and white supremacist book in your school library?

[tastyfreeze]

Without the banning method this is just click bait to sell books. Every book on a ban list is still easily available. It would be weird for something as explicit as a kama sutra book to be found in an elementary school library. It might be appropriate at a high school library. But any kid at any time can go to a public library or book store and find just such a book. The parents get to decide when sexually explicit material is appropriate for their children. Schools do the same by proxy. There is nothing wrong with this setup.

[UncleMeat]

The most targeted book in america is Looking For Alaska. You and I have a very different understanding of what "sexually explicit material" means if you think that this book is erotica.

Remember that the parents are deciding for other parents what appears in libraries.

[ModernMech]

"The parents get to decide when sexually explicit material is appropriate for their children."

It's always strange to me when the concern is "sexually explicit material" and not "violently explicit material".

[6510]

1984