Wal-Mart Hits Teens with Gay Sex How-To Manual

But I thought conservative Christian nutballs didn't want lesbians to get pregnant?

 

Any parent that cares about this should be watching very closely what their children read. I suspect this book is easily identifiable based on its cover content, the blurb on the back, etc. Overt and open sources are not really a problem, because parents can easily monitor it. Of more concern would be books that look like teen romances on the cover, but contain material the parent may not believe his child is ready for, so caution is always needed.

In a free society, more responsibility is required of parents. That's one of the costs of freedom, and as paying for freedom goes, its a pretty small cost.

Wal-Mart bashing is popular now, so I'm not surprised to see conservatives join liberals in the slug fest. So far as I know, the friendly old guy greeter at Wal-Mart hasn't armed himself and isn't forcing people into the store, marching them at gunpoint to the book counter and making them buy books on lesbianism.

But the controversy these groups will generate will be good for some fundraising.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Dec 24 2006, 11:28 AM) [snapback]366341[/snapback]</div>

This is how Amazon describes the book:

 

You can look at some of the excerpts and decide for yourself:
Little black book for girlz

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(catsbox @ Dec 24 2006, 02:59 PM) [snapback]366387[/snapback]</div>

It is hard to decide for myself by reading only excerpts which were hand picked by homophobes for the specific purpose of promoting and advancing the cause of banning the book. I need to read those in the context of the book as a whole before I can form an informed opinion.

 

The first few excerpted pages (I didn't bother looking at all of them) look pretty innocuous to me. The real problem is that kids need to learn about sexuality, but some religious extremists want to keep them in the dark. The original post in this thread had me wondering why a place like Walmart would ever sell such a book. But now I see it's just a straightforward, well-informed book about sexuality that a few nut-cases have forced the store to quit selling.

Meanwhile, they don't seem to mind their kids seeing tens or hundreds of killings on TV every day.

 

http://www.canadianvalues.ca/little_black_...s/example_5.jpg

Talk about propaganda with an agenda...

Hey, maybe some people just don't like the idea of homosexuality, that's still allowed right? No wait, I have to smile and say I'm fine with it...

 

I'm surprised it got published at all. It's clearly marketing to a teen audience, and seems like it falls under the delinquency of a minor category to me. IAR - couldn't the publisher get sued for this?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Dec 25 2006, 03:06 PM) [snapback]366550[/snapback]</div>

You have no way of proving "to whom it's marketed", if it's sold in places to which all people have access. And, of course, if the material's not "pornographic" (and little or nothing is anymore, until its presence on a shelf for sale is successfully challenged in court, most likely on the basis that it "violates community standards", which in turn...)

 

You need to click on the link in catsbox's post (quoted below) and then click on the "examples." But there is no porn. It's teen-age girls giving advice to other teen-age girls. Only the rabidly homophobic would be offended, and would consider it porn, since the examples are questions from, and answer to, girls who find themselves attracted to other girls, when everyone around them is telling them they should be attracted to boys.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(catsbox @ Dec 24 2006, 02:59 PM) [snapback]366387[/snapback]</div>

 

I read all the excerpts, and I'm "underwhelmed"! This is much ado about nothing.

I didn't see any porn there, and its written in the first person, so anyone reading it will know its a person's opinion in each of the sections. I would be interested in seeing any of the technical information in the book to see if they include the usual warnings (not that they matter: kids ignore the warnings anyway, but we should still tell them.)

Parents, if they want to restrict their kid's reading materials, can still do so. Wal-Mart selling this book is not a scandal. Now, if the school made it mandatory reading, I would see how an objection should be made. But otherwise I think this is just one of those "Let's shake them up and see if we get more members/contributors in our group" types of things.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jack Kelly @ Dec, 05:55 PM) [snapback]366585[/snapback]</div>

I'm not referring to where it's marketed, but rather to the target audience.

The cover says:
"by youth for youth"

What does "youth" mean?
At the Amazon link, the editorial review says, among other things, "not just a book about sex, but a look at girl culture by teenagers" and "Girls shouldn't leave their teen years without it."

Clearly, marketed to teens.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Dec, 08:28 PM) [snapback]366606[/snapback]</div>

Well I'm offended, not because of the homosexuality but because it is marketed to teens. If a book this graphic about heterosexuality were marketed to teens I'd be equally offended.