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that it is a segment that didn’t worry people very much till relatively

recently.

Though censorship was known in english law quite early on, it wasn’t

for obscenity but for heresy and sedition.”Undue” exploitation of sex” is

what criminal law in Canada prohibits. This is how criminal law defines

obscenity. But it is rather vague. It doesn’t differentiate between

“ordinary obscenity” and “hard-core pornography.” The first denoting the

ordinary run of “girlie magazines and the second denoting pictures ,

literature and so on that deal with rape, sadism, masochism, bestiality,

necrophilia and other perversions. People tend to object far more to

“hard-core pornography.” Another distinction unfortunately overlooked by

our criminal law is the distinction between isolated instances of obscenity

and the products of vast commercial enterprise.

There has been an increasing trend towards children’s literature that

reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and

non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child

abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have

people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come

from parents about the school’s selections. And in public libraries,

parents were once again the single greatest source of challenges to

materials.

The world is filled with “obscene” things. And it would seem that

those parents are just trying to protect their children from the outside

world. But does it really help? These day, an average elementary school

student knows many things. They are influenced by a wide range of sources,

from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and

school, their personality and their background. Why they read does not

necessarily mean that they will follow. Literature is a valued source of

knowledge for these children, and should not be held back. So rather than