A school library in Weston has a children’s book that features drawings of naked children and encourages masturbation.
The school library at The Meadowbrook School features It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie Harris and Michael Emberley, according to the library’s database. The Meadowbrook School is a private school in Weston, Massachusetts, that serves 300 students from pre-kindergarten to Grade 8.
The book the school library features tells children how to masturbate and says that it’s a pleasurable activity. Below is what it says about the topic on page 48. [Editor’s Note: Graphic language follows and appears in the rest of this story.]
Some people think that masturbation is wrong or harmful. And some religions call masturbation a sin. But masturbating cannot hurt you. And it does not result in pregnancy or in getting or passing on infections that are spread by sexual contact. Many people masturbate. Many don’t. Whether you masturbate or not is your choice. Masturbating is perfectly normal. When people masturbate, they usually rub their sex organs with their hands or with something soft, like a pillow. A girl often rubs her clitoris; a boy often rubs his penis. Both the clitoris and the penis are sensitive to touch. A person may have a warm, good, tingly, exciting feeling all through her or his body while masturbating.
Surrounding these words, the book includes two pictures: one of a boy masturbating and another of a girl masturbating.
Earlier in the book, the narrator tells children that rubbing their genitalia feels “sexy”; the section features drawings of nude children.
Here is part of what the book says on page 22 when explaining female sex organs:
The clitoris is a small mound of skin about the size of a pea. When the clitoris is touched and rubbed, the clitoris and the whole body can feel both good outside and inside. It feels kind of tingly, kind of warm and nice. It feels sexy.
Three pages later, it explains male sex organs. Here is what it says, in part:
When the penis is touched and rubbed, a male’s body feels good both outside and inside – kind of tingly, kind of warm and nice. It feels sexy.
Additionally, the book tells children that homosexual experimentation is normal.
“Sometimes as kids are growing up, boys become curious about other boys and girls become curious about other girls,” the book says on page 17. “They may look at and even touch each other’s bodies. This is a normal kind of exploring and does not have anything to do with whether a girl or a boy is or will be heterosexual or homosexual.”
Massachusetts Family Institute communications director Mary Ellen Siegler told NewBostonPost that the book is not appropriate for young children.
“It’s Perfectly Normal is one of the most inappropriate books I have come across in my research of comprehensive sexuality education resources,” Siegler told NewBostonPost in an email message. “There is nothing normal about teaching young students that abortion is like a miscarriage, or the details of anal and oral sex. This book has 67 nude illustrations including adults having sex, teens masturbating, a man putting on a condom and more.
“Planned Parenthood’s Get Real curriculum recommends it for students beginning at age 10 and it is also used as a core text in the Our Whole Lives curriculum, two sex ed programs approved by the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and used in schools across the Bay State. Since when is such obscene content required to teach children about natural development and the biology of human reproduction?
“MA children are being sexualized in school under the guise of ‘comprehensive’ health education and by books like It’s Perfectly Normal. It’s high time to hold the bureaucrats at DESE and local school officials accountable. Parents should form local coalitions and work together to oppose graphic sex ed content in schools. Enough is enough.”
DESE is the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Meadowbrook School headmaster Arvind Grover and head librarian Ryan Tahmaseb could not be reached for comment on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday this week. Nor could Harris or Emberley, the authors of the book.
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