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Book banning
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RE: Book banning
(December 18, 2020 at 5:35 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Parents still have to give permission for their children to attend sex education...which is basically explaining to them how their bodies work and not really sex education.

The fact that there has to be class a school to teach basic personal biology tells you that we are still quite puritanical when it come to sex.

It's no surprise to me that at the time of the writing of TKAM the euphemism of "taken advantage of" was used in place of rape.  The book most likely would never have been published otherwise.

No doubt.  I don't think we'll get past these puritanical ideals (to reiterate your words), until Christianity either evolves significantly or just goes away, which won't be in my lifetime for sure.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
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Book banning - by Spongebob - December 11, 2020 at 1:55 pm
RE: Book banning - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 11, 2020 at 2:07 pm
RE: Book banning - by arewethereyet - December 11, 2020 at 2:11 pm
RE: Book banning - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 11, 2020 at 2:19 pm
RE: Book banning - by downbeatplumb - December 18, 2020 at 12:05 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 18, 2020 at 3:20 pm
RE: Book banning - by arewethereyet - December 18, 2020 at 5:35 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 18, 2020 at 5:53 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 11, 2020 at 2:37 pm
RE: Book banning - by arewethereyet - December 11, 2020 at 2:42 pm
RE: Book banning - by arewethereyet - December 11, 2020 at 2:40 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 11, 2020 at 2:46 pm
RE: Book banning - by Apollo - December 11, 2020 at 3:47 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 11, 2020 at 4:31 pm
RE: Book banning - by arewethereyet - December 11, 2020 at 3:57 pm
RE: Book banning - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 11, 2020 at 3:05 pm
RE: Book banning - by Rev. Rye - December 11, 2020 at 8:43 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 11, 2020 at 9:56 pm
RE: Book banning - by Apollo - December 11, 2020 at 9:40 pm
RE: Book banning - by Silver - December 11, 2020 at 9:49 pm
RE: Book banning - by Belacqua - December 11, 2020 at 10:55 pm
RE: Book banning - by arewethereyet - December 11, 2020 at 11:22 pm
RE: Book banning - by The Grand Nudger - December 12, 2020 at 6:59 am
RE: Book banning - by polymath257 - December 12, 2020 at 12:38 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 12, 2020 at 4:37 pm
RE: Book banning - by Belacqua - December 12, 2020 at 8:05 pm
RE: Book banning - by Pat Mustard - December 13, 2020 at 1:24 pm
RE: Book banning - by Belacqua - December 16, 2020 at 8:41 am
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 17, 2020 at 4:44 pm
RE: Book banning - by The Grand Nudger - December 16, 2020 at 11:17 am
RE: Book banning - by Belacqua - December 16, 2020 at 10:49 pm
RE: Book banning - by polymath257 - December 17, 2020 at 9:48 am
RE: Book banning - by Belacqua - December 21, 2020 at 7:55 am
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 21, 2020 at 10:19 am
RE: Book banning - by Belacqua - December 21, 2020 at 8:35 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 21, 2020 at 9:40 pm
RE: Book banning - by Belacqua - December 21, 2020 at 10:01 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 21, 2020 at 10:51 pm
RE: Book banning - by Rev. Rye - December 18, 2020 at 6:59 pm
RE: Book banning - by Spongebob - December 18, 2020 at 7:23 pm

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