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Colorado Mother Objects to Eroticism ArticleA Colorado mother of three has filed a complaint with the Rangeview Library objecting to an article in the Spanish-language magazine Muy Interesante.Claudia Speak said her attention was caught by a “provocative” cover on display in the adult magazine section at the library’s Brighton branch, showing a woman biting into a banana. Although Speak is unable to read Spanish, she found pictures inside “of pornographic nature which included two couples engaging in sex, total frontal nudity males and females, gay men in a sexual pose, a cartoon depicting oral sex, three nude women on stage in sexual pose . . . and more,” she wrote in a letter to the Brighton Standard Blade. The article, titled “El extraordinario poder del erotismo” (“The Extraordinary Power of Eroticism”) explores sexuality between men and women, as well as humans and other species, the Standard Blade reported October 17. Brighton branch Manager Alex Villagran told the newspaper a three-person library committee would recommend to the library director whether the magazine subscription should be cancelled. However, he stated that removing the issue in question is not an option, saying “I can’t single out the one issue. That would be censoring.” Speak doesn’t want the subscription to be canceled, but feels that the article to which she objected should be handled in a manner that keeps it out of children’s hands. “The rest of the articles would be fine,” she said, adding that she doesn’t feel that would constitute censorship. “I think discretion is a better word.” Posted October 20, 2006. |
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