{"id":65216,"date":"2025-08-07T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65216\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:52:07","slug":"americas-barmy-battle-to-ban-bawdy-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65216\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s barmy battle to ban bawdy books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">\u201cWith one long claw, he shredded through silk and lace, and my undergarment fell away in pieces.\u201d Sex with a shape-shifting fairy who is sometimes part-wolf, part-bear is not everyone\u2019s cup of tea. But many teenagers and young adults love reading about such things. Sarah J. Maas, a leading writer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/culture\/2024\/04\/26\/romantasy-brings-dragons-and-eroticism-together-at-last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cromantasy\u201d<\/a> fiction, has sold more than 75m novels. This horrifies those who think both witchcraft and fornication are detestable in the eyes of God. Which is why five of Ms Maas\u2019s works\u2014including \u201cA Court of Thorns and Roses\u201d, from which the quote above is taken\u2014are among the most-banned books in American schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWith one long claw, he shredded through silk and lace, and my undergarment fell away in pieces.\u201d Sex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,690,88,21],"class_list":["post-65216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}