A Bentonville, Ark., man is seeking $20,000 from the city after his two teenage sons found a book on lesbian sex on a public library bookshelf.
He also wants the library director fired.
Earl Adams said his 14- and 16-year-old sons were "greatly disturbed" after finding the book, titled "The Whole Lesbian Sex Book." Adams said the book caused "many sleepless nights in our house."
Adams said the book is "patently offensive and lacks any artistic, literary or scientific value," according to a letter he faxed to Mayor Bob McCaslin. He said the teenagers found it while browsing for material on military academies.
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He said the teenagers found it while browsing for material on military academies. Of course they did, wink wink, nudge nudge. Anyway, if his 14- and 16-year-olds really can't handle chancing on such a book, then I question his parenting skills.
I'll believe without a doubt that it caused "many sleepless nights" for the boys *chuckle*
Your two teenage sons went looking for something that would quench their adolescent desires and they were caught by you, so they acted like it was an accident that the book flew at them and forced them to read it and fed you some bullshit about being traumatised by it.
Hey, Earl? I have a few questions for ya:remotely related to the military or academia?
After reading the obvious title, how is it the director's fault that they decided to look through the offending book?
How in the world did you decide that many alleged "sleepless nights" were worth $20,000?
Face it, your kids were actively looking for something like that, they got caught, and lied (badly) about it to cover their asses.
You just decided to turn it into a money-making scheme, it seems.
He said the teenagers found it while browsing for material on military academies.
I'm not that up on my Dewey Decimal System, but I'm pretty sure that books on Military Academics are not anywhere near the same section as books on Lesbian Sex.
If he is to ban books on lesbian sex, he needs to ban lots of other titles, too. He'll need to ban every history book concerning the battles of World War II; every book on the Holocaust; every book on cancer, which can be a quite disturbing subject; every book on the Crusades... and, of course, the Bible, which is so full of sex, violence and genocide that it's frightening.
<< How in the world did you decide that many alleged "sleepless nights" were worth $20,000? >>NonProphet: Obviously, to cover the cost of the overdue fines. They'd obviously had the book checked out long enough to cause "many sleepless nights," after all.
~David D.G.
Look, I used to work in a public library, and I'm pretty dang sure books on lesbian sex aren't classified next to books on joining the military in the Dewey Decimal System.
@Nadraed
Oh yeah...teenage boys "came across" this book. I'm sure it was totally accidental.
I'd classify this guy right up there with the mother who complained that some girl must have left male nudie magazines under her son's bed. If his sons were "greatly disturbed" by the book, what were they doing reading it? Did they think that a book called "The Whole Lesbian Sex Book" might contain useful information about military academies?
Also from the article: In an e-mail Thursday, Adams said that "God was speaking to my heart that day and helped me find the words that proved successful in removing this book from the shelf."
He said he would fight any effort to put the book back on shelves.
"Any effort to reinstate the book will be met with legal action and protests from the Christian community," Adams wrote in the e-mail.
Because you personally are the spokesperson for the entire "Christian Community" right?
this is too hilarious for words. This guy is the only person in the world who believes what his sons told him, right? I mean, if they were six and four years old, maybe.
Obviously, the father never heard of the Occam´s razor, what on earth are the guys in the army with such a book?, and the military academies anounce in the papers, not in libraries.
Good grief!
Ah... huh.
Well, that's rather amusing. Lesbians causing teenage boys sleepless nights? Hmmm... By Haruhi, I think it makes sense!
Actually it seems that studies about military academies and books about gender questions and/or the psychology of homosexuality are both in the 300 category (though not that close: 305-306 for lesbianism, 355 and 370 for military academies), but as Matilde pointed out, for up-to-date information about these academies you want the specialized papers... could have resulted in the kids innocently finding it. Now seriously, the odds of such a thing actually happening? Abysmally low, of course. *^^* And unless the boys didn't wait to get enlisted to get their lobotomy, it's just impossible to confuse this book with one on the military.
Anyway, the book looks like it is a sex manual, not a study on female homosexuality, so it should be filed at 610.
</librarian mode>
Last time I checked, lesbianism was legal, so why all the offence?
"Adams said the book caused "many sleepless nights in our house.""
This really makes me mad. Ok, the whole thing is funny, I mean, how naive is Earl? But this is censorship and worse. The book is potentially useful for a section of the community, therefore belongs in a public library.
Adams said the book caused "many sleepless nights in our house." and blisters on the hand/sprained wrists?
Well, my thanks to TheMissus for submitting this. After several pages of lame-ass dittohead dumbfuck fundies, this was a tonic. Funniest thing on here for a long while.
okay... 1) you can't just "stumble upon" an adult-content book in a library. i worked at a library for years. we have a special place to put those books where horny teenagers like your sons can't "accidentally" find them. they went LOOKING for some dirty reading. they were NOT looking for books on military academies. that's what they told you so you wouldn't beat them to death with a stick.
2) if by "greatly disturbed" you mean "so sexually aroused that they couldn't keep total control of all of their faculties for more than three minutes" then you're right.
3) if by "sleepless nights" you mean "nights spent awake fighting over who could wank over the book on that particular night" then you're right again!
4) the book is neither offensive nor lacking in value. it's a PUBLIC library, where the PUBLIC goes to check out books. the entire PUBLIC is represented there. and yes, the entire PUBLIC does include those of alternate sexuality. deal with it, pussy.
5) military academy. heh.
"How could your kids have possibly mistaken that title for something even remotely related to the military or academia?"
You people need to do a little research, haven't you ever heard of, 'The whore Lesbian sex book: A guide to military Academia in the 21st century' By General N.B. Lieklee ???
"Many sleepless nights"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA I bet it did, those dirty little monkeys. Hey, at least your sons will grow up to be that rare thing - fundies with a clue about female anatomy and how it works. Their future wives will be happy so why not be grateful?
@ Jenna:
"On Our Backs" has ceased publication, alas... though its editor, Diana Cage, now has her own talk show on Sirius.
"many sleepless nights"
I'll bet.
In all the libraries in my neck of the woods (here in the UK), you'll find this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_Are_Not_the_Only_Fruit
Many more like it too. In some of said libraries, they even have manga sections. Which also have this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimite
(I'm sure it won't take much effort for you to Google the word 'Yuri', neither)
And there's not one fucking thing that you can do about it.
Suck it, Earl.
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Yomiko Readman (pbuh; Goddess Queen of Meganekkos) does not approve of your bullshit, Earl.
Earl Adams said his 14- and 16-year-old sons were "greatly disturbed" after finding the book, titled "The Whole Lesbian Sex Book." Adams said the book caused "many sleepless nights in our house."
“Disturbed”. Yep, uh-huh. Definitely the word I’d use. Hehehehe.
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