CAUTION: This article includes explicit descriptions. 

For the past several years, MassResistance has worked with citizen groups and library boards across America to withdraw their districts from the American Library Association (ALA). What you are about to read is a major reason for that.

Last week, the ALA celebrated its annual “Banned Books Week” crusade, which has become its preeminent yearly public promotion. It is a truly sick event that serves to viciously attack parents and library officials who want to protect vulnerable children from pornography and provocative topics (such as rape, prostitution, or suicide). The ALA propaganda has enabled the “book banner” slur to pollute public debate.

The books included in its list reveal the depraved nature of the ALA and its supporters. A legitimate library organization would push for books that enlighten and educate children and adults. The ALA does the opposite.

To defend its image, the ALA purports to be a professional resource for librarians. But that’s basically a façade. When library districts have disconnected from the ALA, none have reported a problem finding professional resources elsewhere.

This year, the ALA trotted out its list of the “Top 10 Banned Books” for children and teenagers – which parents and others sought to remove from libraries during the 2023 calendar year. The books are truly sickening. But the ALA believes these books should be in libraries and readily available to children.

And of course, it’s a lie to claim these books are “banned.” They all can easily be bought online and in many bookstores.

(The ALA refuses to admit the obvious: that the content is explicit. Instead, they state that these books are only “claimed to be sexually explicit” by the “book banners”!)

The Filth They Want Your Kids to Read

Here is what’s really in the ALA’s latest “Banned Books Week” list. (Luckily, parents can go to sites like www.booklooks.org and see even more detail.)

1. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
   Comic-book style volume meant to create “gender” confusion, promoting the idea of transition. Explicit drawings of teens having homosexual sex with each other, including a “transgender boy” (a girl pretending to be a boy) fellating a biological boy. There is negative imagery of menstruation and a girl’s desire to “get rid of” her breasts.
2. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
   A ten-year-old boy is raped by his older male cousin and then “enjoys” it. Long, graphic descriptions of anal sex acts and oral sex between the boys. Also, masturbation, homosexual kissing, and watching pornography.
3. This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
   The book purports to be a reference on sex and relationships. It promotes homosexual practices and medically unsafe perversions, and it is filled with false information. All forms of “gay” and “lesbian” sex are celebrated, with graphic “how-to” instructions for teenagers.
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
   The book contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts between teenagers, anal sex between two boys, male masturbation, oral sex, homosexual acts between men and boys, sex between a boy and a dog, female masturbation using an object, and more. Also includes rape, drug use, and lots of profanity.
5. Flamer by Mike Curato
   A major theme is undermining the Christian stand against homosexuality. Crude descriptions of “gay” boys talking a Christian boy into engaging in oral and anal sex with them. The Christian boy then “embraces” his newly accepted homosexuality. Also, men and boys being naked together, as well as acts too depraved to describe even in this shocking list.
6. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
   A story about rape and incest, including an adult molesting young girls. Graphic descriptions of sex acts. Derogatory references to black people.
7. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
   Extreme profanity throughout the book. Two boys discussing oral-vaginal and oral-anal sex, masturbation, various other sexual acts they do with girls, and their own bisexuality.
8. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
   A horrible story about five teenagers as young as 15 – three girls and two boys – who become prostitutes in Las Vegas. Graphic descriptions of deviant sex, rape, drug use, and homosexuality.
9. Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan
   It purports to be a legitimate book for teenagers about sex and relationships. It’s basically the opposite; it introduces teenagers to unhealthy, deviant, and destructive sex acts and relationships. It promotes perverted and harmful homosexual and transgender behaviors, and radical gender ideology.
10. Sold by Patricia McCormick
    A thirteen-year-old girl is sold into sex slavery, after which she is repeatedly raped. Explicit violence and prostitution.

Dangers of Pornography

As we all know, pornography is a national problem. But it affects children and teenagers severely. It can harm them emotionally for their entire lives. They can become addicted to it, it distorts their ability to have intimate relationships, and carries other psychological problems. (See the report by the American College of Pediatricians, The Impact of Pornography on Children.)

But the ALA doesn’t worry about this. It only cares about its own radical ideology, calling it the “freedom to read.” But it’s really something terribly cruel.

Children’s “First Amendment Right” to Porn

The ALA attempts to twist the First Amendment to claim that public libraries must include the graphic pornography listed above because children have a “right to read.” If libraries choose not to include these books, the ALA condemns it as “censorship” and an impediment to “free access to information.” Even the pornography industry doesn’t go that far!

The American Library Association condemns censorship and works to defend each person’s right to read under the First Amendment and to ensure free access to information.

In addition, the American Association of School Librarians (a branch of ALA) is enthusiastically going along with this campaign. So watch for these books in school libraries!

Aggressive Campaign to Force Libraries to Carry These Books

The ALA doesn’t stop at just complaining and making noise. The ALA is actively bullying public libraries to stock the “banned books.”

On October 19, they are organizing like-minded leftists across the country in a sophisticated campaign to aggressively pressure library officials and staffers to include this pornography on their shelves – and to demonize the ones who don’t comply as “book banners” and “censors.”

They are calling it the “Freedom to Read Day of Action” where they will have rallies across the country to demand that pornography for children and teenagers be available in all public libraries, school libraries, and bookstores.

Bullying Parents Who Complain

They also have a well-organized system of attacking local administrative “book challenges” to pornographic children’s books that are in the public libraries. They don’t want a single pornographic book to ever be taken out of children’s reach.

The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has also joined in the fight. Their tactic for stopping challenges in school libraries is that protecting children from graphic sexual perversions constitutes “anti-LGBTQ discrimination.” (See our article at American Thinker, “Shutting Down Book Challenges.“) Luckily, that hasn’t gotten momentum.

Final Thoughts

MassResistance is standing tall with parents and pro-family citizens across the country to counter the ALA’s efforts, and we continue to work with local library districts to leave the ALA entirely.

Finally, the dishonesty regarding the ALA’s “book banning” cry is offensive. As we’ve mentioned above, none of these books are “banned.” Rather, they are challenged for removal from taxpayer-funded libraries.

However, books that actually are banned are the ones that tell the truth about the LGBT movement and the resulting medical and psychological issues. Those books are “cancelled” from virtually everywhere (including Amazon and public libraries) by the angry leftist mob. Luckily, one important volume is still available on the MassResistance website: The Health Hazards of Homosexuality: What the Medical and Psychological Research Reveals. This is a truly banned book!

It is a compendium of information from a range of prominent medical sources, including the CDC, medical professional groups, published medical research, and even LGBT medical sources. It’s been praised by physicians and researchers. It reveals a shocking picture that most of the public is unaware of.

Originally published at massresistance.org. Reprinted with permission. For additional media content, see original post.