“And we wonder why our teens are getting pregnant, why our young men can’t keep their pants zipped?” Now let me ask you something, what do you think is going to go through the mind of a young man with hormones racing through his body as he sits in the middle of class?” said the letter. “One scene … goes like this, ‘Lara unbuttoned my pants and pulled down my boxers a little and pulled out my penis … Then it proceeds to state that oral sex then was performed. The book is understood to have been suspended from the curriculum while the school reviews the complaint.Īnother resident has written to the local paper describing the novel as “mental pornography” and detailing the number of times the “‘f’ word” is used (16) and the the “‘sh’ word” is used (27). Now a parent in Marion County, Kentucky has described it as “filth” in a formal complaint form, telling Marion County High School that its inclusion in the curriculum could encourage students “to experiment with pornography, sex, drugs, alcohol and profanity”.
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