Patrons complain about what we put in the library; this time at a library in Bloomington, IL one guy was shocked when he borrowed the DVD for Shortbus, an unrated movie "containing sexually explicit content." Variety says about Shortbus, "Unquestionably the most sexually graphic American narrative feature ever made outside the realm of the porn industry..."
I'm all for skin in the library. Hell, I made sure we purchased 10 copies of The Beastmaster. But when libraries start parading this kind of skin around, one needs to put his foot down:
Skin care for teens at the Yarmouth library.
You can complain about gaming in the library, and poetry slams, and anything else that attracts kids, but when you invite the local cosmetic expert from the local department store into your library to teach kids about skin care and hygiene, I need to speak out.
Why would you want all that oily, spotty, splotchy, greasy, pimply skin in the library? Yuck. Porn, sure. But not that.
