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1. We should get Larry Craig on this. It could've saved him from hitting the bathrooms.

   Posted by: DN | Mar 11, 2008 3:26:28 PM

   
   

2. Sex is dirty. Why can't people just hold hands?

   Posted by: John In Manhattan | Mar 11, 2008 3:47:03 PM

   
   

3. treat it with great care, the joy is more important historically than the gutenberg bible!

   Posted by: the queen | Mar 11, 2008 4:05:33 PM

   
   

4. I'd love to see a catalog of the books that you have to ask for to find....

   Posted by: oakling | Mar 11, 2008 5:50:04 PM

   
   

5. I actually worked at the Nampa Public Library for a while as a page intern during my senior year of high school (2005-2006), mostly doing organizing and re-shelving of books that had been checked out. I always thought it was amazing that those books were checked out at least 2-3 times a week, every week. People really can and do *use* that information in the most literal sense of the word!

   I think this is really unfortunate considering that I don't think anyone is going to want to go to the library director to request a book, especially a book of that nature - which, while not definitionally (i.e., banning), is certainly in a practical sense censorship. One of the nice things about that library is the self-checkout with the RFID tag system that makes it so you don't even have to face a check-out counter clerk to borrow books that might be embarassing. Too bad those books won't get any use now :( Though perhaps when I go back home from ISU for the spring break I'll check it out just on principle :)...
   

   Posted by: David | Mar 11, 2008 7:22:13 PM

   
   

6. Maybe those folks in Nampa can borrow Senator Larry Craig's copy. Assuming of course, that he didn't leave it in Minneapolis Airport bathroom! ; )

   Posted by: AJ in SaMo | Mar 11, 2008 8:46:53 PM

   
   

7. That's okay...Nampa, Idaho has internet connections. They can just watch Xtube and get the same education.

   Posted by: Fleshlight Fan Club | Mar 11, 2008 10:25:23 PM

   
   

8. thank god. this book is one of the worst fucking books written. it's archaic, outdated, racist, inept, and obsessed with living without responsibility (and S&M).

   this book has single handedly took the gay community BACK ten years.

   i wrote in the margins for half the book and sent it back to the publishers. still haven't heard word.

   please... it's time to get a new major sex book icon for our community.

   Posted by: james p. | Mar 11, 2008 10:54:26 PM

   
   

9. *chirp chirp chirp*

   Posted by: Cricket | Mar 12, 2008 12:11:50 AM

   
   

10. Another small step backwards for equality, another giant leap backwards for America, as the U.S. regresses inch by inch in the opposite direction of the civilized world. Coming soon: Christian-based sharia law and execution of homosexuals. Thank God I'm Canadian.

    Posted by: Strepsi | Mar 12, 2008 1:06:42 PM

    
    

11. Library Director (played by Leslie Jordan):
    I am NOT a homosexual! My 'business associate' Benji and I just like to thumb through the pages of "The Joy of Gay Sex" together to be prepared in the fight against such VILE immorality! Now leave me alone to finish my Lemon Drop.

    Posted by: Jon | Mar 12, 2008 2:25:47 PM

    
    

12. I am from the Norhtwest and have worked in libraries for over 16 years. Nampa Idaho is a small (and small-minded) town that houses Northwest Nazarene College, a religious school that one of my best friends from HS went to. The whole town in built around the college and religion, so this little incident doesn't surprise me at all. That being said, I don't think I've worked in one single library where someone didn't complain about some content. As my friend Matt says, "Some people wake up in the morning just waiting to be offended." In the bigger libraries I've worked at, this book would have been one of the most-stolen ones (along with bomb-making and witchcraft, LOL). I'm not surprised, not at all. The only thing that surprises me is that they still have it by request--but then they'd have to, or be accused of complete censorship, which is truly something most librarians abhor. They're there to dispense information, not hide it.
    And Jon--your LD was hilarious (and played by Leslie Jordan-- fantastic!). However, please don't assume that all the men who work in libraries or who are library workers are gay. The last library I worked at, only one man of ten (cluding the director) was gay. One of the guys wore Doc Martens and a kilt every Saturday, and he was straight as an arrow. The patrons loved him. And I'd love to break the library stereotype --the bun, pearls, and sensible shoes. I'd go to work in leopard print pants just to break the stereotypes, and a lot of the staff had tattoos. So, please, don't assume that library workers are all straight laced and prim. We're not!
    

    Posted by: devilgirl | Mar 13, 2008 9:21:49 AM

    
    

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