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     Missouri library buys extra copies of “Bang Like a Porn Star” for “research.”

    Jonny Diamond

    November 16, 2023, 10:59am

    The St. Charles County library system recently bought additional copies of a challenged book, Bang Like a Porn Star: Sex Tips from the Pros, because “committee members need more copies to conduct a formal review.” Suuuuure guys.

    The book, which features interviews with gay porn stars—along with helpful diagrams!—has been formally challenged by an as yet unnamed Charles County resident who doesn’t want you to learn about having good sex.

    According to St. Louis Today:

    Prior to the latest purchase, only one copy [of Bang Like a Porn Star] had been available, on the shelves at the library’s Kisker Road Branch near Weldon Spring. [Library spokesman] Lori Beth Crawford said she didn’t know when the committee would make a decision on the challenge.

    Anonymous sources* tell me it could take up to three years for the committee to fully understand and appreciate all the nuances of Bang Like a Porn Star and that one committee member was heard saying that “if we need more time to get the bottom of things we’ll damn well take it; this book is our top priority.”

    *I do not, in fact, have anonymous sources inside the St. Charles County library district.

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