An award-winning young adult novel that mentions masturbation was reportedly removed from the sixth-grade reading list of a New York City school after parents complained.
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie's 2007 story of a Native American who transfers to an all-white school, includes the following passage: “And if God hadn’t wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn’t have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs.”
By the time the book was pulled from the summer reading list, at least eight parents whose sixth-graders attend Public School/Middle School 114 in Queens intended to withhold the book from their children, PTA Co-president Irene Dougherty told the New York Daily News. One of those parents was Kelly-Ann McMullan-Preiss. "Not appropriate for my child to learn at 11," McMullan-Preiss said of the book, likening it to erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey.
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