{"id":1768,"date":"2003-09-24T04:43:54","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T18:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/inappropriate-sexual-arousal-for-teens\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:52:42","slug":"inappropriate-sexual-arousal-for-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/inappropriate-sexual-arousal-for-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate sexual arousal for teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned parents in Texas want to ban <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060929871\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Brave New World\">Brave New World<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441790348\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Stranger in a Strange Land\">Stranger in a Strange Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The board of directors for the South Texas Independent School District is expected to decide tonight whether to ban two books &#8212; Aldous Huxley&#8217;s Brave New World and Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Stranger in a Strange Land &#8212; from the high school&#8217;s 10th grade English Advanced Placement curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>  The books, part of the class&#8217; summer reading list, may lead to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonitor.com\/NewsPub\/News\/Stories\/2003\/09\/22\/10642896312.shtml\" title=\"Parents want to ban books\">inappropriate sexual arousal of young teens<\/a>,&#8221; parent Julie Wilde wrote in her complaint to the district.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously (to me, at least), this is patently stupid. But I did have one question.<\/p>\n<p>Would Ms.\u00a0Wilde be so kind as to suggest some alternate reading that provides <em>appropriate<\/em> sexual arousal for young teens?<\/p>\n<p>Britney Spears&#8217; autobiography, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegofish.com\/archives\/002149.php\" title=\"Frankly Mr. Shankly\">Go Fish<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would Ms. Wilde be so kind as to suggest some alternate reading that provides appropriate sexual arousal for young teens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036],"tags":[2405,2406,2407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}