Virginia Beach City Middle Schools Keep Book Teaching Masturbation in Library

Virginia Beach City Middle Schools Keep Book Teaching Masturbation in Library
"Sex Is a Funny Word" in the juvenile section of Patrick Henry Library, a Fairfax County Public Library, in Vienna, Va., on Oct. 4, 2022. Terri Wu/The Epoch Times
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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Virginia Beach City Public Schools have decided to keep a book teaching masturbation and gender identity in its middle school libraries. While the book was in two middle school libraries when it was challenged in July, a third middle school has acquired it and featured it in the recently added books collection.

The book “Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You,” written by Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, includes images of a child touching herself in the bathtub.

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