I wish this post was about Iraq or North Korea however unfortunately we are talking about California, the largest state in this great nation. Merriam-Webster’s 10th edition contains the term and definition for “oral sex” (oral stimulation of the genitals). This past week, one parent in Riverside, California complained to the school district and the world’s most published dictionary has been banned from the 4th and 5th grade classrooms. This is the type of “head in the sand” policy that continues to cause increasing rates in STD’s and unwanted teen pregnancies. Our kids need comprehensive sexuality education. Ignorance solves nothing. I’m guessing that most 4th and 5th graders have access to a computer. When they do a Google search for “oral sex” like I just did, they are going to see that the search engine found 21,300,000 pages of information on oral sex, the first of which was “Free Nasty Oral” while the second was “give the best blow jobs.” CNN took a pole and found that 97% of the respondents are against banning the dictionaries yet the school board remains solid in their convictions and have vowed to “start looking for other things of a graphic nature.” I propose that the 11th edition of the dictionary shows a picture of the 2010 school board next to the word, “knucklehead”.
