An outraged Texas mother took to the podium at a school board meeting to slam educators for including a book that described anal sex in school libraries.
Kara Bell stood before the Lake Travis Independent School District board last Wednesday to discuss the 2015 young adult novel, Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez, which contains a range of explicit sexual terms. She took aim at those responsible for making it available to minors at middle school libraries.
Bell even recited a passage of the book to the board to highlight its inappropriateness.
Check out what she had to say below:
"Take her out back, we boys figured, then hand on the titties, put it in her cornbox, put it in her cornhole, grab a hold of that braid, rub that calico," she read at the meeting, which was streamed online.
"You can find that on page 39 of the book called, 'Out of Darkness,'" she said of the excerpt, "which you can find at Hudson Bend Middle School and Bee Cave Middle School."
Bell was appalled that the book referenced “cornholing”, which she later learned was another term for anal sex.
“Not going to lie, I had to Google ‘cornhole’ because I have the game in my backyard,” the mother said. “But according to Wikipedia, ‘cornhole’ is a sexual slang vulgarism for anus. “In verb form ‘to cornhole,’ which came into usage in the 1930s, means to have anal sex.”
Bell then told the board that she under no circumstances wanted her children learning about “anal sex” in middle school.
“I’ve never had anal sex,” she continued. “I don’t want to have anal sex. I don’t want my kids having anal sex. I want you to start focusing on education and not public health.”
The livid parent’s microphone was then cut off but she continued to demand that the book be removed from schools.
The day after the board meeting, it was reported that the school had taken the book off its shelves.
“A district possesses significant discretion to determine the content of its school libraries,” a spokesperson for the district said in a statement to Fox News. “A district must, however, exercise its discretion in a manner consistent with the First Amendment. A district may remove materials because they are pervasively vulgar or based solely upon the educational suitability of the books in question.”
Out of Darkness follows a teenage Mexican American girl who falls in love with a Black boy in Texas. It is set around the time of the New London school explosion in 1937 that killed more than 295 students and teachers.
