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Book censorship in the U.S.A.


From: <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:55:04 -0400

Critic Of Sex Education Book Refuses To Return Library Copies
http://www.wmtw.com/news/14139329/detail.html

LEWISTON, Maine -- A Lewiston woman who said she was "horrified" by the
content of an acclaimed sex education book has checked out copies from two
libraries and refuses to give them back.
 
JoAn Karkos made her feelings known in letters to the Lewiston and Auburn
public libraries. Each letter was accompanied by a check for $20.95 to cover
the cost of the book, "It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up,
Sex and Sexual Health." 

In one letter, Karkos wrote, "I have been sufficiently horrified of the
illustrations and sexually graphic, amoral, abnormal contents. I will not be
returning the books." 

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