RIGHT!! This has nothing to do with education: "A motion to remove two books from the Emmaus High School optional summer reading list"

Giovanni just use commen sense, they mean its optional if you want to read one of the books in question. You can read any two books on the list nobody is being forced to read these books. Although with all this plubicity im sure these books will become quite popular. I think the only thing that might be misleading is calling these books porn.

I am using common sense Ron. If someone says the "optional summer reading list" it sounds like the list or the summer reading is optional. Most people are surprised when they learn that the reading is mandatory and the children must chose books from the list.

atthebeach – if you feel the passages are not porn, then why not type them in so we can all read them and judge for ourselves? In all the articles about this subject I have yet to see one reporter post the material in question.

Abel what you need to understand is the context. A big political arousal is taking place. A group of people who want to take control of the school board are driving for wedge issues. Donches and Stolz are working with a well organized group of individuals who want to control that board. That is it and that is all. This is not about pornograpghy.

I make the same offer to you Abel. If you feel the passages are fine, then post them below.

A movie, no matter how good it is will have its rating changed from PG to X if it portrayed the passage from Prep as descriptive as it is written. When you read your brain imagines the words, much like creating a movie in your mind. If a child can't go to the movies to watch it then why is it ok to graphically described to them?

Hey Gio, having been convinced that reading Prep is the same as watching a porn film by your impossibly accurate dissection of how my thought process works

(reading makes pictures in my head ergo I am making my own porn movies in my head when I read the naughty words),

I am convinced we could do more to find out what other types of "thought movies" kids might be making in their heads without appropriate licensing or oversight.

I am also deeply troubled by your own solicitation of members of this forum to post porn laden passages from Prep on this site. Since many minors have access to this site, and could thereby view this porn, I have to ask you to please, sir, stop begging people to post porn.

They have many other sites for that. Patch, despite its ironic use as a slang reference to female genitalia, is not a site where we encourage our neighbors to post porn material. However, I can understand how the "patch" term misled you to believe this might be just the perfect "spot" for soliciting those services.

If you feel like reading the book then read it, nobody is stopping you. I honestly don’t care what you read. If the book was so fantastic then why did you need controversy to bring it to your attention? Can you only read something if it's the subject of debate? Do you need someone to tell you what to read?

Was the Summer Reading List suggested reading for you or for the children of East Penn?

How many 13 year olds are having sex? That’s how old some children are the summer before 9th grade. By your logic, since a minority of kids age 15-19 are having sex (I wonder what the percentage change from 15-19 actually is since 18 and 19 year olds are adults) we should expose the majority of kids to graphic sexual content. Just for the record, what's the minimum percentage of children that need to demonstrate inappropriate behavior for you to expose other children to it?

Are any of those on the 9th grade Summer Reading List? Did the school district recommend them for reading for 13 year olds? I think that's the subject we are discussing here.

I make a motion we add Glamour, Redbook and Cosmo to the "optional" summer reading program. Let's face it, we don't have time to read a 400 page work of American literature before we get to the really good stuff.

We'll also need to nominate several individuals to help Giovanni get the book Prep out of his ass... it's way up there.

Good luck, Mr. Landi, in your noble efforts to eviscerate (look that one up) the annals (look that one up too) of contemporary American Literature.

Excellent debating skill Abel, I bet you win over a lot of people with your eloquence. It appears that some people think using big words and insults is an appropriate way to discuss issues. Maybe you should ask the board if you can volunteer to help coach the high school debate team. While you’re asking them about the debate team, ask them to add your selections to the summer reading list if you feel they are literary works of genius like you profess Prep is.
Thank you for enlightening me about the districts “optional summer reading list” being included in the annals of contemporary American Literature.
Here’s something for you to look up – age appropriateness.

Gio, I've had a moment of clarity or perhaps I've just been moved by the undeniable brilliance of your circular logic (if I can't post the passage on Patch, it's porn).

But, I'm afraid just taking Prep off the reading list is only the beginning. Those articles in Cosmo, Redbook, and Glamour have got to go. Those magazines need to be removed from school libraries. Imagine the horror a child will face if, while sampling perfume, he or she comes across one of those lascivious articles on how to give a perfect BJ. Nor can students be permitted to carry such harmful smut within the halls of Emmaus academia.

I also found this tawdry bit of slime from Men's Health:

http://www.menshealth.com/sex-position-playbook/choose-position?page=2

Called "The Spork," this position could easily be confused with a frequently used cafeteria utensil by the same name--thereby resulting in who knows how many injuries to those parts of your body that we don't call by name [the "wee-wee" area].

And then I discovered this salacious nugget of lustful depravity:

http://www.menshealth.com/sex-position-playbook/choose-position?page=5

This position is called "H2Ohh, Yeahhh..." Disgusting filth!
What if the kids attempt this one in the pool at EHS? Surely they will be lured into such behavior by the rampant availability of this "how-to" trash!

By allowing these materials in our libraries, our lockers or our children's backpacks, we not only condone these actions, we encourage them.

why does Abel Abderson post all of these "pornographic" references here? people are tryiong to have a serious discussion

I'm serious. Why go after Prep, when we have a chance to get the real sources of lewd content (Cosmo, Redbook, Glamour, and Men's Health) away from our kids?

Careless, you might not realize you can buy those magazines over the counter right at CVS in Emmaus. Horrible! The kids can brings those magazines to school and share this smut with their friends. Beastly! And these "magazines" could even be in our school libraries.

We need to purge our school's of this filth before kids see it. Prep, yeah, we'll get to that too, but what about all this other stuff? It's porn too, right?

Men's Health is published by Rodale which is right here in town. Should we boycott? Maybe organize a "Night without Men's Health Porn" protest?

Are you really suggesting to add those periodicals to the EHS library?

Or better yet, are they there already? If not, why not? Think about it.

Careless, we need to find out if these periodicals are in the library. How could we have overlooked this smut?

We also need to find out if kids are permitted to read this smut in school, during free time or carry it with them. It's obviously porn and it explains how to perform sex acts without the clever guise of literature.

Cosmo, Redbook, Glamour, and Men's Health need to be removed from EHS because they detail sex acts that kids will surely want to emulate and experiment with, possibly on school grounds.

Can you make this motion at the next school board meeting?