"A great place to research fantasies and kinks safely is on the internet!"

What? WHAT??

Everyone, literally everyone who isn't living under a rock, knows that's the opposite of the truth. The internet is a minefield, especially when it comes to kink and porn!

Somebody tell the author that pubic hair is not a testosterone-specific development…

All females have pubic hair. Lots of it.

If I’d seen this book as a kid, portraying a person with breasts and a penis, and another person with a vulva, male torso and a full beard, I can’t imagine how confused I would be. Why is it okay to teach this to children?

That thread is unhinged. Especially the downplaying of STIs—what?? HIV is a big deal. So are the full spectrum of STIs. You could call that section “Tell me this is privileged first world shit without telling me this is privileged first world shit”.

Hey kids, STDS are no biggie. Porn is candy. Babies are made by lovingly pounding a woman style against a wall. But don't go ass to vagina! Tee hee

I am so glad I did not have children; I have so much sympathy for the sisters who do/did.

This book is absolutely vile for any age- I was absolutely insulted. The repulsive art and cutesy normalization of adult behavior before children is something this tumblr bred activism must answer for eventually, but the denial of the STIs, especially the glossing of HIV is more than I can handle: I was there for the AIDS crisis.

I feel the need to shower again. The woman who made this needs a hard drive check.

This book makes sex look so unsexy it might actually end up ending teen pregnancy in this country.

I feel so disgusted and nauseous and mortified and trembling in fear for the future by this thread but at least this comment made me laugh.

I can't believe anyone is defending this filth in a school library.

This is actually helpful to see, in the context of trying to understand young people who buy into this stuff.

If one believes that the "gender binary" represents a stereotypical jock and a stereotypical flower-loving damsel in distress, it is easy to see how one may think that "smashing it" is important. Indeed, it is understandable that one may think one is not male or female, but something else. In this sense, education about these topics shapes young people's views. I would also not have believed myself to be a girl if I was taught that "girl" means the swooning, dress-wearing, timid little thing in the picture. I can even see how I might have become militant about this if I had been taught these things.

So many problems. Not appropriate for children by any stretch of the imagination. Sexually explicit. Portraying the fringe as the norm/typical (they wish). It has an insidious "hey kid, want some candy" feel to it. Not based in science but rather Science (TM). Porn and kink indoctrination with no mention of rampant abuse and rampant covering up of that abuse in these "communities" for the sake of getting off which also preserves abusers hunting grounds. Cavalier attitude towards promiscuity and STDs/STIs that encourages carelessness and endangerment of oneself and one's partner.

Female and male aren't "historical." They're current and as unchanging as the boiling and freezing points of water.

They're getting increasing pushback from adults so now they must cultivate a new generation of people who will accept this. Slip this absurd filth for impressionable inexperienced children to stumble across. They really are the monsters out of original fairy tales.

This is truly disturbing. Literal pornography marketed at children.

Just checked. My county library has this book on the bookmobile (which visits the more rural areas). It's also in one of the rural high school libraries (more conservative area), but not the town library (more liberal area). Huh. Bet most parents have nooooo idea.

So...why is the womans' lower half depicted as transparent during PIV sex, while none of the other forms of actual sex are depicted this way? Is it because only a small sample of pages from the book are used and there are actually more images like that? Or, are these illustrations designed specifically for prurient reasons? What is the purpose of this? This book does not belong in a K-12 school library. Also, the casual mention of STIs and no mention of an ever diminishing choice of effective antibiotics for bacterial STIs is inexcusable. There's so much more that is wrong here...

"ass to vulva" was weird. People love to correct anyone who says "vagina" to "vulva" - it's the correct term for the outer part but it always feels more about "let me show off how I know more about you" than actually caring what term is used. But "vaginal sex" WOULD be correct. I have never heard anyone say "vulvular sex." And if we're trying to score points for correct terminology here, wouldn't they say "anus" instead of "ass?" Slang for one hole and (incorrect) medical terminology for the other looks weird.

Ah, by Erika Moyen, right? Of oh joy sex toy? I remember when the comic was in its early stages I found it funny, but very soon the writer's porn brainrot became too obvious. Entirely unsurprised by everything I see in this book.