Author-blogger protests racy books display at Books-a-Million
Books-A-Million display
Nancy French walked into the Books-A-Million store in Spring Hills, Tenn., with her three kids last week and saw the above books display that she found disturbing.
One book promised to make this the most erotic year of your life with 365 sexual positions – one of which was shown in plain, naked view on its cover. Another was about the art of erotic massage, and had a naked woman’s torso with a man’s hand – barely – covering her.
French — who helped Bristol Palin with her memoir — complained to a clerk and was told to “call corporate if you like.”
A little flummoxed, I did just that. Instead of shopping for mother’s day, I dialed the number right there in the store. While I was on hold, another worker explained that these were paid positions on the shelf and that they weren’t allowed to deviate from what corporate dictates.
“I want to have a happy relationship with that bookstore,” she told a Tennessean reporter. “They’ll be like, ‘Here comes the Puritan — let’s make sure only Bibles are being sold.’ But that’s not me at all.”
* Books-A-Million sexuality display upsets Christian blogger (Tennessean)
* Store displays books with pornographic covers in plain view of kids (Patheos.com)
There’s no cure for stupid, but perhaps not walking down the “Sexuality” aisle if sexuality offends you would be a good place to start?
Wait…what? Bristol Pailin wrote a memoir? Assuming she had little to do with the actual writing, is there actually a market for something like that?
or, if the Sexuality section wasn’t avoidable, how about not reacting and calling attention to something you don’t want your kids to notice? But now you’ve complained to a salesperson, called up corporate and spoken to the media. I hope the kids were running around the store getting exposed to all manner of nastiness while she was on hold.
Start the parade of responses from the ignorant masses who don’t understand how there could possibly be anything wrong with this.
Just remember: We need discussions of sex EVERYWHERE. First Amendment, you know. Forget about discretion; appropriate time and place, etc. All the time, everywhere. That’s the key.