Friday, October 23, 2009

Librarians Won't Give Child 'Porn' Book

I'm not one for censorship, and I am probably going to get some grief over this but I completely agree with these women and think that there's a great deal in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics that are definitely not suitable for children and I don't think they should have access to them. If parents think that it is ok, and have the comics around the house that's an entirely different manner.

Unfortunately many libraries seem to lump all comic books together, sometimes even in children's book sections. I used to go around with the local branch of my library back in Cleveland because they shelved Alan Moore's From Hell (a comic about the Jack The Ripper killings that inspired the movie of the same name) in their children's section. They finally moved it into a more "adult" section of the library.

The two women say they were fired last month when they wouldn't let a young girl check out a book from The League of Extraordinary Gentleman series. Now, both women say they're less concerned with their jobs and more concerned with keeping material like this out of children's hands.

'Residents in Jessamine County do not realize that these books that are so graphic are available in the library let alone to their children,' former Jessamine County librarian, Beth Bovaire, said.