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You should go to your local school board and demand they pass a resolution forbidding the library from having copies of the new version generally available. They can keep the new version behind the desk, only available after the student proves to the librarian they understand this is a non original and lacks the literary value of the original.

Do the same with public libraries, except the new version is kept next to the almost porn books.



> Do the same with public libraries, except the new version is kept next to the almost porn books.

I haven't actually checked, but I would expect e.g. Naked Came the Stranger, Lolita, and Lady Chatterley's Lover to just be filed under "fiction". I'm not aware of a separate category for "fiction that some people do or once did consider scandalously erotic".

There is a category for actually-porn books, "romance", but you can't make any case for putting an edition of Roald Dahl there.


They keep some books behind the desk where you have to ask for them, to ensure kids don't find them accidentally. Or at least they used to.




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