What to do with the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated?
(Sports Illustrated became a big issue recently when the company announced that the swimsuit issue would not be sent to public and school libraries.) • “Just had my first SI swimsuit issue comment. An English teacher came in and said I had to remove that from the shelf because it was soft porn and anti-woman. When I told her that some people wouldn’t like her teaching Go ask Alice, she backed down although she was shocked that I would be allowing women to be demeaned like that. I explained about censorship and intellectual freedom, but I’m not sure I convinced her” • “I put our swimsuit issue out the on the magazine shelf as per all other SI issues. The ONLY response I got was from one teacher saying, “You put it out, brave man.” Ha!” • “When I first came to this Library three years ago, I heard that it was possible to request not to have the coveted swimsuit issue sent, so I wrote EBSCO (from whom we get most of our magazine subscriptions) and asked for it not to be delivered to us. I
( Sports Illustrated became a big issue recently when the company announced that the swimsuit issue would not be sent to public and school libraries.) • “Just had my first SI swimsuit issue comment. An English teacher came in and said I had to remove that from the shelf because it was soft porn and anti-woman. When I told her that some people wouldn’t like her teaching Go ask Alice, she backed down although she was shocked that I would be allowing women to be demeaned like that. I explained about censorship and intellectual freedom, but I’m not sure I convinced her” • “I put our swimsuit issue out the on the magazine shelf as per all other SI issues. The ONLY response I got was from one teacher saying, “You put it out, brave man.” Ha!” • “When I first came to this Library three years ago, I heard that it was possible to request not to have the coveted swimsuit issue sent, so I wrote EBSCO (from whom we get most of our magazine subscriptions) and asked for it not to be delivered to us.
