[_mgt8]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/06/2...

Has a list of banned books and some of the reasons.

Elsewhere, although I couldn't find the article they categorized the different reasons, and scenarios such as "explicit graphic examples of oral sex" were not a thing. In that categorization there were some banned for sexual content, but it was a tiny tiny fraction, like a fraction of a percent.

That sort of idea is commonly used as justification in the larger wedge of "protecting the children". But if you look at what is actually banned and the reasons (or even if the banned book has been read by the people banning at all), it's pretty clear that's not actually what this is about.

[nvahalik]

Please, let's be honest about this discussion.

These books were not banned.

They were removed from libraries.

You can still legally get copies of them from any number of booksellers.

Making something harder to get doesn't make it illegal. It doesn't mean it is banned. It doesn't mean you can incur legal problems for owning it.

[FrustratedMonky]

So,

If you have money you can have knowledge.

If you are poor, so sorry, no knowledge for you. Go pick some crops.

Actually, kind of what we have now.

[nvahalik]

Smut is not knowledge.

[FrustratedMonky]

Then stop buying it.

Ezekiel 23:19-21

"There she had longed for her lovers. Their private parts seemed as big as those of donkeys. And their flow of semen appeared to be as much as that of horses. You longed for the time when you first became impure in Egypt. That was when you allowed your breasts to be kissed. And you permitted your young breasts to be touched.”