UPSTREAM
Inside the push to get explicit content in front of kids
Inside The Push To Get Explicit Content In Front Of Kids Without Parents Knowing
This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you.***For years, progressives have been shrieking about book bans, insisting conservatives want to pull classics from library shelves or burn fantasy novels for promoting witchcraft. It was always a straw man. The real fight was never about classic literature; it was about books like “Gender Queer,” which includes illustrations of oral sex and masturbation, and which 90% of voters in a 2023 poll said was inappropriate for public school libraries. Or it was about “This Book Is Gay,” which introduces dating apps to teenagers.Those books are undeniably gross, but they do have exactly one redeeming quality: They are obvious. If your kid came home with a copy of “Gender Queer” or “This Book Is Gay,” it would immediately signal that it was time to attend a school board meeting.But there’s a much more dangerous form of young adult literature out there, and it’s lurking behind an intentionally deceptive cover that’s meant to trick...
