sex books moved
TBHC25 years ago…
November 3, 1981 – In a 4-2 vote, Tampa City Council members order the immediate reshelving of six children’s sex-education books from the children’s section of area public libraries to the adults’ section. Councilwomen Sandy Freedman and Helen Chavez voted against the measure. Freedman said that moving the books without having an established criterion for all books is like “playing a game, knowing the score and then making the rules.” Such titles to be moved included The Beauty of Birth, Love & Sex in Plain Language, How Babies Are Made, and Where Do Babies Come From?
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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November 3rd, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Things have probably regressed since then. It seems the ‘backlash’ is in full swing. The folks that wanted government out of our lives break our backs with more of their version of morality, values, and unbridled capitalism.
As we become even more turned off by our ‘leaders’ they hear from a smaller and smaller group of small minded folks!