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No, but if a library worker decides to put pornographic books on children's shelves you can't force them to remove it.

• aidenn0 3y ago
  Thanks for engaging my extreme example on its own terms. If that's what this law actually does, I'm kind of okay with that. I trust a random librarian's judgement far more than any law passed by grandstanding politicians in order to stir up anger.
  • jojobas 3y ago
    Well your trust is misplaced. https://www.kcrg.com/2023/05/19/this-book-is-gay-iowas-looming-school-library-book-ban/ https://www.kcrg.com/2023/05/19/this-book-is-gay-iowas-loomi...
    • aidenn0 3y ago
      I'm not sure what your point is (or if you read my comment correctly). I definitely think that letting librarians make the decision is better than a law that bans all books with depictions of sex from all grades. I have read this specific book and I would have been on the side of allowing it in high-schools, but not junior highs. However, I can see how a reasonable person would disagree with me, and the most prurient parts of chapter 9 are no more titillating than my junior high sex-education class, which I recall as being less titillating than looking at pictures of topless women in National Geographic, and that was definitely available in the library.