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Most banned books are because of sexually explicit content.
A term often applied to any mention of LGBT topics.
Debatable.
Hahaha, go ahead and try to debate that. See how that works out for yah.
Any why do you think sexually explicit content should be censored? Is it perhaps because you live in a puritanical society?
For the kids.
You call it puritanical, but if you allow an “anything goes” mentality to prevail in media, and then young men and adolescent boys start emulating the behaviors they absorb through their hypersexualized media, you’ll call them deviants and sex pests and you’ll wrack your brain trying to figure out why that behavior is normalized.
If media depicts women as gratuitous sex objects, you’ll take issue with it, right? But then you ask why sexually explicit content should be censored, and suggest that it could only be because of puritanism?
Because, what’s the assumption? That A), media doesn’t influence behavior; and B), sexual activity isn’t maladaptive?
If both are true, then how do you justify all the arguments about depicting women and minorities in media? Cause it seems like those arguments often contradict Assumption A above…
For the record, I’m not arguing in favor or against. Just encouraging logical consistency, because I don’t find cognitive dissonance very convincing.
Sex isn’t bad, lack of consent is bad.
Well, there is one duo of books that are banned here in Denmark. My friend’s wife is reading them and I had the same reaction as you when I heard it was banned.
I thought, pch, pearl clutchers.
Then she started reading the forward to me, which contained a list of all the fetishes present in the book. It sounded pretty tame with all the BDSM kinks, then it came to blood play, consensual and none-consensual physical abuse, torture porn, and erotic gore.
Then I understood.
Banning is is still dumb, even if people think it’s weird…
" Here is what’s in this book, make an informed decision on whether or not you will read it."
Vs:
“I think this book is icky, so no one is allowed to read it.”
Do you or do you not believe Mein Kampf should be banned?
i believe that Mein Kampf should be available with the proper contextualization and critiques. putting it out for the public to spread its hate is what its author wanted, but to erase its existence entirely is to eliminate the possibility of learning from the past that these things are possible and real.
Mein Kampf is not the only way that form of racial hate spreads. we have to teach people to recognize it or you make it too easy for someone like Ben Gvir to retool this racial hate to equate anti-semitism and anti-zionism when zionism itself is an anti-semitic strategy of statecraft.
In the USA at least it’s a wide array of topics that have been (often disingenuously) deemed objectionabl.
But even if a book does include sexual content, should that cause a book to be made completely unavailable to an entire school or library system in the first place? A parent wanting some control over what their own children read is understandable; giving them control over what other children (and adults at the public library level) can read is unconscionable.
No, you’re right. I should have been more specific in my comment. Typically when I hear this comment being made, the complaint is that the books are being banned from the public school system, which to me is completely fair to do because you don’t want children to be able to access books with sexually explicit content without their parents consent. And in terms of the public library, they shouldn’t be banned, but it should be like watching an R rated movie or buying an M rated game, you have to be over 18 or with an adult to be able to check it out from the library.
So basically, removed from the school system and restricted in the public library system. Buying it is up to the parents though so no restrictions there.
