What I think of censorship and banning
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Honestly I believe it is depending on the situation of whether sex scenes, drinking scenes and foul language should be published in books. Young adults and adults yes, of course can read the books because they know about it already. For young adults they should know because there parents should have talked to them about knowing wrong from right and being in a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship. As for little kids it isn't appropriate for them to read the scene and not know it bad and they learn from that book where it is use in a good manner and take it and say it in a bad manner and they get in trouble and then that's when parents complain about what children and some young adults read.
As for in schools, for learning and reading at their level I do believe that sex scenes, drinking scenes and foul language can be used in books and should be to show them that in high schools they are treated as adults to an extent and and be mature about what they are reading and how they take to it. Mainly because as you read most teachers who teach english break the book down to make sure that you actually understand it and to do that they put it into reality most of the time to make you think about it as if the character was you. Like for example, "The Catcher in the Rye" showed the life of a boy who always got in trouble in school for failing and had gotten kicked out of several schools and he would hide it from his parents so that they wouldn't be disappointed in him and he lived on his own for about a week until school was over.
However, reading books with sex scenes, drinking scenes and foul language as a pleasure book makes the book completely different and the point of veiw of the reader take it different. As for readin it on your own and you think that you would be cool by putting yourself in the characters postion, and as you read the book you push yourself to do it because as you read it edges you to think about yourself and your friends doing it. If you see nothing wrong with it though you go out and do it and before you know you and your friends are in trouble for either talking back to a wrong person, drinking and smoking under age and get caught by police or even worse going out with a guy and becomming a pregnant teenager all because you thought you would be cool if you did what this character did because they never got caught or if they did nothing happened to them...