I just heard this on CNN. The libraries that were considering banning "The Higher Power of Lucky" was because the word "scrotum" appeared on the first page. The author (who is a librarian, btw) stated that the character was reading something about body parts and was only using the word in an educational way.


What do you guys think?

That book is the 2007 Newbery Medal winner. And scrotum??

I never censored my childrens books- my parents never censored what I read and we all grew up as fine decent people!

Ah, if only the author had written "ball sack" instead... :rolleyes:

:lol:

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

I simply cannot comprehend our society's extreme hangups over anything slightly sexual, while they've got this complete indifference towards violence!! *shakes head*

I'd rather let my kids watch sex in movies and on television than violence, yet society is so fucked up that most people would rather the other way around. It's something I've just never been able to wrap my head around. *sigh* <_< :erm:

This whole book thing over a simple body part just underscores it all yet again...

This frustates me! *bangs head on brick wall*

I read about this in the NY Times today and thought the same thing! :lol:

How incredibly prudish! There are real things to worry about with our kids, I don't think "scrotum" is worth pulling a book over. I guess some people just don't want to explain when a child asks them "what's that?"

Shakes head in disgust. There are far more important things to worry about than a word that's hardly worth thinking over :blink:

Exactly - it's not exactly an offensive word.
It amazes me that people 'protect' their kids from things like this and leave them so vunerable in other ways.
I'd far rather my daughter used 'real' names for parts of the body than was embarrassed by talking about them.

It boggles the mind. scrotum??? WTF?

It reminds me of the phone call I got from the day care director when Martin was 2. She said, "Michelle, Martin has been using words that we can't allow in the center". I thought, Uh oh, what the hell has the little fucker said now. She went on to tell me. "He told the other boys that it wasn't a pee pee, it was a penis". My response was, "He's right, and if they ask, he'll tell the little girls they have a vagina". She was so worried about what other parents would think or say. I was floored. After I explained that I didn't really give a flying rat's ass about other parent's hang ups she decided that it wasn't really that bad.

Why don't people get it? :bash:

This conversation brings to mind a a song we sometimes sing around the campfire. It goes something like this...

Scrotum, scrotum
it's my wrinkly, crinkly bag of skin
Scrotum, scrotum
it's the thing I keep my testes in

Well it's wrinkly and crinkly and covered in hair
And I don't know what I'd do if it was not there

Oh scrotum, scrotum
it's my wrinkly crinkly bag of skin :whistle: :whistle:


Or check it out with musical accompaniment here or here.


Oh nuts! I must've played with it too much, it won't play for me anymore. :lol:

That statement makes me :lol: on so many levels - all of them very childish!!!

Scary :angry: