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Posted By:Veritas at August 22, 2007 9:40 AM (Suggest Removal)
Library sophisticates?? Wow!!! Where's Dick and Jane when you really need them?? Er, Richard - I mean... (Blush)

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Posted By:Bill at August 22, 2007 9:40 AM (Suggest Removal)
Sounds like a book I wish I'd been given when I was a teenager. By "the natural progression of sexual investigation" and "normal" you mean fumbling unhappily in the dark without a clue, don't you? Ignorance is never a good strategy, with sex or anything else. You seem to be promoting "embarrassment, blush and shame" in lieu of education. Thank God for libraries! Sex is not immoral, but a profoundly fundamental part of our makeup.

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Posted By:Joseph at August 22, 2007 11:13 AM (Suggest Removal)
Those "Library Sophisticates" this wacko is referring to are dedicated and hard-working individuals who are part of a team which carefully selects and maintains books for the public use. If Karkos has a problem with this book, she can contact these people and speak to them. All she needs to do is stop at the front desk and ask for a copy of the board of directors list. She can contact each and everyone of those people and rant this hyperbolic dirge to them. Individually. One at a time. Whatever Karkos chooses to do - please! Save us from this puritanical, straight-laced and fridged blather in future.

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Posted By:Barbara at August 22, 2007 4:29 PM (Suggest Removal)
Joseph have you been to a library lately? Maybe you need to go and check out that book before going on a tirade about it's content. This book has illustrations of pubesent children in various sexual poses. It also denigrates moriality,religion and states that homosexuality is perfectly normal. Those who disagree with that statement according to the book are misinformed or ignorant. To me this book is pure garbage. To me it is a parents job to teach sex ed to thier children and answer thier questions truthfully when one arises. Sex is a normal part of life that is why the parent NEEDS to educate thier own child.

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Posted By:Hymn at August 22, 2007 4:47 PM (Suggest Removal)
Hmmmm! I smell a book burning coming.

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Posted By:clifford Drake at August 22, 2007 5:09 PM (Suggest Removal)
What happened to reading Richard Brautigan or Tarzan King of The Jungle or Harry Potter or the contineauing adventures of Clifford drake or how about Faulkner or Hunter S thompson or Jack kerouac or Allen Ginsberg or william burroughs or Jack flanders or Tom Wolfe/cd

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Posted By:ojhuig at August 22, 2007 5:30 PM (Suggest Removal)
Oh goodness, that's NORMAL? Gadzooks, next you'll be telling me that two people of the same sex might want to start a family together! Heaven forfend!

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Posted By:Steve T. at August 22, 2007 9:39 PM (Suggest Removal)
Some of you people in here are incredibly hyper-sexual. As for Ms. Karkos, the days of PARENTS determining what they want their young child to know about sex and intimacy are GONE. Our school systems have taken over that role. "Johnny has two mommies" and "Jane has two daddies" are what the schools are teaching our children. The schools will be more than happy to give your daughter the phone number of the nearest abortion clinic (without parental consent), but they can't give your daughter an aspirin with out parental consent. Go figure! Our public schools are churning out sexually promiscuous, gender-confused young adults who don't have a CLUE what "traditional" families and gender roles are all about. Some of you who have replied to Ms. Karkos with your ridiculous accusations and comments are PERFECT examples of what has been going on in our schools for many years. I feel very sorry for the children of these people in here.

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Posted By:Kate at August 24, 2007 9:01 AM (Suggest Removal)
As is evident by these posts, my words are not going to change any one’s opinion of what is normal or abnormal. However, the real question at stake is the role of Libraries in our communities. Libraries are our information resource; it is not their role to censor materials. Karkos has taken upon herself to remove this book from our public libraries. She has gone behind our community’s back and decided for everyone that this book is immoral. She has ignored “library sophisticates” offers that allow her to take the civic responsibility of having the book re-considered via avenues outlined by prior Library Board Committees (made up of citizens of Lewiston and Auburn). I am sure those of you who deem the book immoral would hate to see a liberal radical removing the Bible from our Library’s shelves without majority consent. Let’s support the Libraries in allowing them to expand so that they can carry materials containing all of our opinions and let’s encourage family usage of the Library to help guide our children through the wealth of knowledge available.

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