{"id":3405,"date":"2019-12-04T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=3405"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:06:32","slug":"sex-is-a-funny-word","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/sex-is-a-funny-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2023 &#8211; Sex is a Funny Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2023\/author\/\">2023 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2023\/title\/\">2023 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/12\/sexisafunnyword.jpg\" alt=\"sex is a funny word\" width=\"260\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/12\/sexisafunnyword.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/12\/sexisafunnyword-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabe.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=sex+is+a+funny+word&amp;te=&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2023<\/h2>\n<p>On August 17, members of the groups Idaho Liberty Dogs and Concerned Citizens of Meridian spoke out against <strong>It\u2019s Perfectly Normal<\/strong> by Robie Harris and <strong>Sex is a Funny Word<\/strong> by Cory Silverberg during the public comments of the Meridian District Library\u2019s board meeting. They referred to the developmentally-appropriate sex education materials as \u201csmut-filled pornography\u201d and claimed it was \u201ctime to defund the Meridian Library Tax District.\u201d Both titles remain available throughout the library system.<\/p>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged, banned, and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content, for discussing gender identity and sex education, and for concerns that the title and illustrations were &#8220;inappropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>2018<\/h2>\n<p>Retained but relocated after an outraged social media post with a picture of the book included in a new book display at the Athens-Limestone (AL) Public Library. The book was taken from the display and relocated in the juvenile non-fiction.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 21, 2023<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3405\/revisions\/13859"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}