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Today it was one concerned parent who didn't like a book on puberty she had bought for her nine year old because...
1. There were pictures of the male and female external genitals with "everything labelled!"
2. There were diagrams of the reproductive system on the inside, like "a textbook!"
3. It mentioned that sex and birth control exist, and that people have sex because it feels good. ("I don't want to give her ideas! What if she tried it out?")
4. It mentioned tampons. Yes, tampons. Nine is too young to know they exist. At this point, I'm rather puzzled as to what sort of information she DID want included!
Another reviewer was incensed because the book mentioned both homosexuality and abortion and didn't immediately label them as evil. "I just wanted the facts, not indoctrination!" (and unlike the other quotes, which are really paraphrases, that one IS a direct quote.) I want to sit him down with a dictionary and make him copy out the definition of "fact" and "indoctrination" five times each.
1. There were pictures of the male and female external genitals with "everything labelled!"
2. There were diagrams of the reproductive system on the inside, like "a textbook!"
3. It mentioned that sex and birth control exist, and that people have sex because it feels good. ("I don't want to give her ideas! What if she tried it out?")
4. It mentioned tampons. Yes, tampons. Nine is too young to know they exist. At this point, I'm rather puzzled as to what sort of information she DID want included!
Another reviewer was incensed because the book mentioned both homosexuality and abortion and didn't immediately label them as evil. "I just wanted the facts, not indoctrination!" (and unlike the other quotes, which are really paraphrases, that one IS a direct quote.) I want to sit him down with a dictionary and make him copy out the definition of "fact" and "indoctrination" five times each.
