Kan. library restricts access to sex books (to minors)

[Liberal_in_LA]

Kan. library restricts access to sex books

TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — The public library in Topeka, Kan., is restricting access to four books about sex.
The public library's Board of Trustees voted Thursday night to prevent minors from having access to the books after reviewing a complaint about their availability in the public stacks with other health books. Topeka resident Kim Borchers called them "harmful to minors."

The staff of the Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library must now develop a plan for handling the books. The books are "The Joy of Sex," "The Lesbian Kama Sutra," "Joy of Gay Sex" and "Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go."




http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-20-library-sex-books_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

[Regret My New Name]

1. Does The Lesbian Kama Sutra have pictures?

I might check that out....

Why remove them fully? Can't they just put them in a special adult section or perhaps behind the counter? I wonder how this lady found those books? I'm betting she was looking for them...pervert. ;)

[marshall]

8. The American Library Association discourages restricting access to materials

Anything that is in the library should be available to any patron, regardless of race, gender, or age.

[Marrah_G]

2. I think it depends on how graphic the books are and what the age cut off is.

Like I wouldn't want a 12 year old reading the Beauty series by Ann Rice.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. Just do what the local video store does

Put the books in a dimly lit room, put a beaded curtain over the doorway and post a sign saying (18 or Over ONLY). Problem solved in an amusing manner.

[Marrah_G]

4. Excellent Idea....except change it to blacklights.

[hootinholler]

5. Umwouldn't they restrict them to adults?

:shrug:

-Ted

[seabeyond]

6. i am in library regularly and i dont see children in adult health section, .... ever. except

maybe my son. lol. then i am there to peruse book he gets and say aye, or nay. parenting. what a concept.

i ould have issue if this was in child section. i would have issue if a parent wasnt there to give thumbs up. and if kids are huddled around a section of adult health, a worker can easily go to them and break it up

[TlalocW]

7. I'm from a small farming community in Kansas

When I was in 3rd grade, I heard some playground talk about sex, where one of the cooler kids who supposedly knew about it said (paraphrasing), "When a man and a woman have sex, if the man doesn't bounce on her just right, she'll die." This got a round of, "Ooooooohs," from my credulous classmates, but I thought that I would have heard a lot more about sex-related deaths (even as a child) so I didn't know if I should believe him or not.

After school, I walked to our local library, found a book on sex, found a bigger book of Peanuts cartoons that I could put the sex book in, and read as much as I could understand. Later on, I discovered a sex information book in my parents' room and read that when I could.

Thank goodness this law wasn't on the books when I was a kid. :) Also, thank goodness for the bad eyesight of the 60-something woman who was the librarian back then.

TlalocW

[Tesha]

9. That "60 year old librarian" probably had better eyesight than you credited her with.

'Know what I mean? ;)

Tesha