The Menifee Union School District in California recently pulled all copies of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary from their shelves and is investigating what they consider “age-inappropriate” words. The controversy began when a student thumbing through ”oralism” and “orang” in the dictionary, found the recent entry “oral sex“. A parent complained to the school district after the child read the definition: “oral stimulation of the genitals.” (And how).
The school district is now forming a committee composed of principals, teachers and parents to determine whether the 470,000 entries are suitable for children. Free speech advocates (and sane people), worry that this is “needless and harmful censorship”. Seriously, why don’t you take a look at the Bible and let me know if the stories of rape, pillage, murder and the like are suitable for children? Or for that matter, check out one of any classically gruesome Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales.
The Executive Director of the California First Amendment Coalition stated, “If a public school were to remove every book because it contains one word deemed objectionable to some parent, then there would be no books at all in our public libraries. I think common sense seems to be lacking in this school.” Obvi. The school district might settle for trading the collegiate editions for Merriam-Webster’s Children’s Dictionary. (I’m sure the pictures are lovely.)
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A sheriff’s deputy from Indianapolis was charged this week with official misconduct and patronizing a prostitute (a national pastime) after a police sting caught him attempting to use his job to solicit sexual favors from women while he worked a second job as a security guard at a local gas station.
According to an affidavit, police began the investigation after one woman reported that the 25 year-old deputy had tried to solicit her for sex on several occasions.
The suspect had been with the department for 10 months and was arrested Sunday after police wired the woman for sound to catch him in the act.
Local officials stated that they deputy was heard on a recording offering to trade a pack of cigarettes and a soda for oral sex. (Sounds like she lost out.) The man has been suspended without pay, pending further investigation.
A paramedic accused of having oral sex while on duty claims he was only trying to comfort a sobbing woman. (Not sure exactly how that comforts her.) The (married) man was caught on video surveillance in the passenger seat of the woman’s car with her head in his lap in a hospital parking lot in South London.
The paramedic denied the allegations at a practice hearing and insists that no sexual activity took place during the incident. The woman commented, but her statement was unintelligible being that she had a c*ck rammed down her throat.
