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My Body is Special and Private

Adrianne Simeone

This introduction to body safety is designed to empower and educate the youngest of readers to understand that their bodies are special and deserving of respect, and that it is always right to tell. As a survivor, advocate and mother I believe introducing body safety education to children at a young...

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Untraditionally Lala

The hosts described the book as a cartoonstyle children's guide that contains explicit sexual descriptions and illustrations, deeming it inappropriate for its intended fourtoeightyearold audience.

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This is in a book that was in a library, a school in Utah, a library for a guide for four to eight years old. Sabrina's vagina becomes moist and warm and Marco's penis gets very still. Marco then push...

— Episode: The One Where Lala Learns About Furries...

Episode: The One Where Lala Learns About Furries In School

The hosts described the book as a cartoonstyle children's guide that contains explicit sexual descriptions and illustrations, deeming it inappropriate for its intended fourtoeightyearold audience.

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This is in a book that was in a library, a school in Utah, a library for a guide for four to eight years old. Sabrina's vagina becomes moist and warm and Marco's penis gets very still. Marco then pushes his penis into Sabrina's vagina, always in and out. ... Marco's penis sprays semen into Sabrina's vagina.

The book is called My Body is Growing, a guide for four to eight year olds. It's drawn like a cartoon and looks like a children's book, but the pages show explicit sexual scenes between a boy and a girl.

It was written and illustrated by Dagmar Geisler. Dagmar, shame on you for writing a book like this for a four to eight years of age.

The illustration shows two characters having sex, with a teddy bear on the pillow, making it look like a kids' book, but the content is graphic and includes details about birth control methods.

They said the book is a guide that teaches body positivity, but the hosts argued that its explicit sexual content makes it wholly unsuitable for young children.

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