MassResistance Analysis: How Graphic, Obscene Books in Schools and Libraries Harm Children

 

Analysis

How graphic, obscene books in schools and libraries harm children

It’s far worse than most people realize

The radical employees and politicians who put the books in – and defend them

Note: Graphic descriptions below.

August 10, 2026

 School officials, library officials, and leftist organizations simply ignore the overwhelming studies on this subject.

It would have been beyond anyone’s imagination just a few generations ago: Radical adults in schools and libraries are aggressively pushing graphic pornography and obscene homosexual imagery on children and teenagers. And public officials are supporting it.

Yet parents who want to protect children are publicly slandered as “book banners,” “Bible thumpers,” or opponents of “free speech.”

The proponents claim this vile material “helps” children relate to the real world. Leftist law firms such as the ACLU spend huge sums suing school districts that disagree, claiming that children have a “right” to read this pornography. Far-left legislatures in Massachusetts, California, Illinois, and other states have even passed laws banning the removal of pornography from schools and libraries.

What they’re giving your kids to read

Here are just a few examples among hundreds of harmful books pushed and defended by the porn alliance in public schools and libraries across the country:

• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe: Explicit drawings of teens having homosexual sex with each other, including a “transgender boy” (a girl pretending to be a boy) sucking on a boy’s penis. One drawing is of a man lying back on a bed with his legs spread while the other man is lying between his legs. Typical dialogue: "I can't wait to have your cock in my mouth.”
• Flamer by Mike Curato: Crude descriptions of “gay” boys talking a Christian boy into engaging in homosexual oral and anal sex with them. He then “embraces” his newly accepted homosexuality. There’s a sick description of boys masturbating into a bottle and forcing another boy to masturbate in front of them, or else he’ll be forced to drink it.
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: The book contains graphic descriptions of anal sex between two boys, male masturbation, oral sex, homosexual acts, and sexual acts between teenagers.

 We've seen these books listed in schools and public libraries across the United States.

Does this really help children and teenagers “relate to the world”? Should children be given the “right to read” this material over the objections of parents, school boards, and library boards who disagree?

What pornography does really to children and teenagers – now and later in life

Studies regarding children and teenagers being exposed to heterosexual pornography invariably come to the same conclusions:

Problems affecting children and teenagers

• Early sexual behavior, including extreme and aggressive sexual experiences.
  
• Susceptible to sexual predators. Sexual predators often expose young children to pornography for the purpose of grooming them for sexual abuse, prostitution, and trafficking.
• Desensitization. Getting used to extreme content and becoming addicted to pornography (becoming consumers thereby enriching the porn producers).
• Antisocial or violent behavior. Children who have viewed pornography are statistically more likely to sexually assault their peers.
• Adolescents who view porn are more likely to use illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Later in adult life: Increased likelihood of emotional, social, and sexual problems

• Problems with intimacy. Difficulty forming and keeping romantic relationships, higher breakup rates. Loss of attraction to real world partners.
• Inability to have normal sexual relationships. They often become obsessed with acting out warped sexual acts they have seen, including rape, bondage and other perversions.
• Impotence; inability among males to achieve erections in an appropriate relationship with a female.
• Emotional problems. more feelings of anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression sadness, low mood, guilt, shame, or general unhappiness. This leads to reduced ability to interact in social situations.

Some research links:

• Adolescents, Porn, and Mental Health: Understanding the
• Dangerous Effects of Porn on Developing Minds
• Adolescents and Pornography: A Review of 20 Years of Research
• Impact of pornography consumption on children and adolescents: a trauma-informed approach
• Pornography Use Profiles and the Emergence of Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence
• The effects of pornography on children and young people
• Exposure to sexual content and problematic sexual behaviors in children and adolescents

LGBT pornography in schools – even worse!

A large portion of the obscene books for children and teenagers pushes the normalization of homosexuality, transgenderism, BDSM, and other perversions. It involves graphic homosexual descriptions and imagery as well as carefully crafted stories, relationships, and descriptions for children as young as pre-Kindergarten.

What does “LGBT” pornography do to the minds of vulnerable children and teenagers?

Due to political correctness, the aggressive LGBT movement, and threats of “cancelling,” there is a shocking lack of legitimate studies and serious medical inquiry into this. We couldn’t find any. Moreover, all the major medical associations insist that homosexuality and its related behaviors – transgenderism, gender issues, etc. – are simply normal.

However, our own (admittedly unscientific) findings over decades of talking with parents have been shocking. Exposure to homosexual pornography or normalization of LGBT relationships and behaviors is dreadfully destructive for a child or teenager. It brings the effects listed above with the added layer of normalizing and even causing an addiction to those perversions in the mind of the developing child.

• It can cause great confusion in the child’s mind as to what’s really “normal.”
• It can cause a child to seek out homosexual sexual experiences or relationships, transgender or BDSM behaviors, or other “gender” related issues.
• It can bring on LGBT-related mental illness, medical issues (e.g., STDs), and emotional problems (including depression and suicidality).
• It can very often make the child prone to sexual abuse or rape by older same-sex children or adults
• We have talked to adults who have homosexual issues that stem from exposure to homosexual sexual material as a child.

Why are those adults obsessed with making this material available to youth?

That is a question that vexes parents across the country. It was never like this until recent decades. The answer relates to the nature of the radical mindset, which unfortunately has permeated schools and libraries. These adults want to use the younger generation to perpetuate their own radical attitudes and worldview.

An alternate explanation: We once asked the late Dr. Judith Reisman, a nationally known researcher and author of several books on the sexuality of children: Why do teachers and librarians do this to children, especially when they know how this affects children and they know that parents don’t want their children to be exposed to this material?

Dr. Reisman was blunt. “These people hate children,” she told us. Just as so many leftists irrationally hate conservatives, there is something about healthy, emotionally stable, and God-fearing children that these people seem to despise. What they obviously love is their radical ideology.

Final thoughts

This is a monumentally important battle that MassResistance has been committed to.

As one mother said to us after her daughter was led to lesbianism by materials in her high school, “They’re screwing up kids sexually for the rest of their lives.”

It's a battle that parents must stand up to and confront, no matter what intimidation, harassment, or threats come against them from the demonic Left. We're here to help. It’s too important to ignore.

   

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Meaning/Word Origin of Torrance

In Scottish Gaelic, the name Torrance comes from torran, which means a "little hill," "hillock," or "mound". It is the diminutive form of torr, meaning a heap or hill. The Scottish village and surname translate to "the place of the little hillocks" or "from the knolls". [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Gaelic Roots

Torr: A high mound, rock, or hill.
Torran: A small hill, knoll, or little hillock.
An Toran: The Gaelic place name used for the village in East Dunartonshire, Scotland.
The "-s": Added later as an English or Scots plural suffix after entering common speech, rather than being part of the original Gaelic root. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Specifically, the city of Torrance is named after Founder Jared Sidney Torrance

Hank Hill Takes on Andrew Tate and the Fake Masculine Ultras

I like this video. 

And I like the renewal of this show!

  

Big Win for Torrance: Traffic Commission Rejects Automated Parking Cameras

On August 3rd, 2026, the Torrance Traffic Commission held another meeting on automated ticketing scheme, specifically to discuss and decide whether to recommend automated parking enforcement cameras for the city of Torrance.

A large number of residents attending the meeting:

Staff had to set up more chairs, as more residents poured into the West Annex Commission room. At one point, it was standing room only. Lots of people were really incensed about this topic.

I would imagine every person in the room opposed this terrible scheme.

Here are some highlight comments from the Traffic commission meeting on Augusts 3rd:

Tom (or Ted) has been on the other side of every issue I contest before the city council. He's unabashedly liberal, to the point that he didn't want "One Nation Under God" displayed in the city council chambers.

He readily--and light-heartedly--admitted that he didn't agree with me on anything ...

EXCEPT shutting down these Orwellian cameras!

The discussion among the traffic commissioners was telling, too.

The state of California has authorized an automated parking ticket enforcement scheme, but the law expired without any reauthorization:

One of the commisisoners reminded the public that there is already a third-party vendor enforcing parking issues, so why bring in cameras?

Ultimately, the Torrance Traffic Commission staff recommended that the commission NOT recommend automated cameras for parking enforcement!

And all of this begs the question:

If the Traffic Commission staff has investigated all the potential costs and benefits to the automated ticketing schemes, why waste the traffic commission's time?

I asked as much during my comments:

The work is not done, however.

This commission meeting determined that the city should not pursue automated camera enforcement for parking violations.

As for speeding and running red lights, the Traffic Commission will probably hold separate hearings on those issues. This is all a waste of time. The commission should be focusing on high-impact intersections, increasing speed limits where there is hardly any traffic, and bringing in more traffic lights for busier intersections.

At least residents can rest asssured that the city commissions (and the city coucnil?) are listening to the public and backing away from these abusive, unconstitutional automated camera schemes!

As for the latest traffic commission meeting, what was particularly interesting was the widespread agreement on opposition, from the most left-wing activists in the city,  like Ted or Tom the atheist (I call him Larry David, since he looks like the comedian main character from "Curb Your Enthusiasm," to people like me, who have been speaking up for the conservative side of every issue that comes before the city council.

I spoke with a few residents after the meeting, and they appreciated my remarks. One of them admitted that she had not been paying attention to city politics all that much, but then she learned about bad proposals like the automated cameras, and she knew that she needed to get involved.

There are lots of issues that divide residents in Torrance, but pretty much everyone is united against automated ticketing schemes. Let's hope that the city focuses on positive issues that will generate more consensus among residents, like:

1. hiring more police officerss

2. reducing the cost of business

3. repealing the utility users tax (since the city wants to get as much of the sales tax revenue before LA County takes it and wastes our money on its own failed pet projects

4. Cleaning up and fixing the roads

Please contact the Torrance City Council, and tell them to "Get Back to Business" and "Get Back to Basics" and fix real problems in the city:

ALL OF THESE CAMERA PROPOSALS MUST BE REJECTED!

(310) 618-2801

BLieu@TorranceCA.Gov

Dkartsonis@TorranceCA.Gov

BLewis@TorranceCA.Gov

ASheikh@TorranceCA.Gov

SKalani@TorranceCA.Gov

JGerson@TorranceCA.Gov

Response to "The Causes Against Tyranny of the Orange King": No Case Against the President

 

James Preston Allen should be proud that so many Republicans read his newspaper.

If he’s angry, it means that all is well with the world.

The more that he complains about Trump, it means President Trump is doing a great job.

In his latest editorial, Allen weakly tied the “long chain of abuses” in the Declaration of Independence to President Trump.

Trump was duly elected, not a monarch installed by divine right and line of succession. In contrast, the Democrats installed Kamala Harris as the 2024 nominee, even though Joe Biden had won the primary (albeit losing primary contests and suffering “No preference” losses in liberal bastions like Minnesota).

Allen blames the President for Congress’ not voting on the War Powers Act. That’s the decision of Congress, not Trump.

The notion that Trump has refused to pass other laws for the “accommodation of large districts of the people” is nonsense. If the editor is complaining about the partisan redistricting, the blame falls on Democrats, who contorted the 1964 Civil Rights Act to force Democratic gerrymanders in Republican states. Turnabout is fair play.

Allen twists the Declaration’s section on dissolving representative houses, somehow connecting that to the DOGE efforts. Americans are grateful for the massive cuts to the federal bureaucracy. Why are so many people working for the government in the first place?

And of course, he calls President Trump’s enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws racist. Has he seen what black South Africans are doing to migrants in their country?

Letter to the Editor: Politicians Should Be Required to Read "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman

 

The SoCal News Group republished an editorial urging readers to remember free market economist Milton Friedman.

I became a free enterprise conservative after reading his work!

From his advocacy for low tax rates, drastic spending cuts, and broad elimination of federal bureaucracies, California needs to adopt his principles and adapt to freedom.

Few know about him because of our failing education system. Teachers’ unions and contractors run California schools, rejecting free enterprise while demanding government command-and-control of the economy.

Sure, California voters want a voucher system.  School choice is one way for the next generation to break free of ignorance about (and hostility to) free markets, free enterprise, and free people. However, California voters have repeatedly rejected these proposals due to misleading ballot statements and political machinations.

What’s worse, voters on both sides of the spectrum are expressing doubts about free-market capitalism, convinced that only populist government intervention will solve their economic ills.

Now more than ever, everyone, especially politicians, should learn about Milton Friedman. I would support requiring elected officials to read “Capitalism and Freedom” before taking office! Most importantly, though, voters need to listen to pundits, advocate for policies, and elect politicians in line with Friedman’s freedom agenda.

Letter to the Editor: By George, Boy George Gets It -- No Genocide in Gaza

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here is no genocide in Gaza. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize this.

However, as David Suissa wisely (because so simply) points out, it does take a genius to market the truth effectively to overcome the repeated propaganda of the pro-genocide Gaza Palestinian cult.

It certainly helps that major figures in entertainment tell the truth, who for all intents and purposes have no skin in the game or specific care about the outcome of the war.

At this point in the social media sphere, culture wars can cancel a celebrity’s career.

Yet Culture Club’s own George O’Dowd dares to tell it like it is.

There is no genocide in Gaza. It’s a shame and a travesty for anyone to claim otherwise.

His AI-generated song gets to the point.

“You say genocide. I say war.”

Then the song continues:

“Does it get ugly? You bet it does.”

By George, Boy George gets it.

For those who still don’t understand, of course there’s no genocide in Gaza. Israeli forces allowed Gaza's children to receive aid, to leave Gaza to receive care in Israel as well as Italy.

The IDF leaflets civilian areas in Gaza, warning that they will strike the region to take out Hamas terrorists, strikes which are determined after extensive analysis.

Israel could have dropped a nuclear bomb and wiped out Hamas (and everyone else).

It’s war—and even civilians die. When it comes to the evils of armed conflict, I remember this quote from Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, when he was describing the horrors of the American Civil War:

“War is hell … War is cruelty.”

Finally, Sherman added that the only way anyone can stop war, once the other side has started it: you make it so cruel that the other side never initiates war again.

California Schools Are Going Broke – No Surprise There!

 

California schools are going bust.

Is it any surprise? California government faces routine rounds of boom-bust deficits. The political class squeezes the rich for their money, and the high-end earners are expected to pick up the tab for most of the government’s services.

Tired of being fleeced, the rich are fleeing the state, and with that come the deeper cuts.

And they are deep.

Bay Area schools are closing, facing budget shortfalls. LAUSD schools are looking at insolvency, and fast. The wealthier suburban enclave of Manhattan Beach, CA issued notice for 60 layoffs to balance the district’s budget. Redlands Unified School District also approved another round of layoffs earlier this year.

Couldn’t the local governments take the helm and fix the budget problems?

In California, financing for schools does not go from the taxpayer right to the school district. All the money goes up to Sacramento, and then the politicians divvy up the money across all the school districts depending on need, diversity, reading scores, and other considerations. As expected, the schools in the bluer, more left-wing and that's failing schools tend to get most of the money.

It’s not about achievement. There’s nothing fair about the process at all. Schools that fare poorly—and have poorer students, too—get more money. 

Hermosa Beach, California, is one of the highest-performing school districts in the state, and they get so little money in comparison to other regions. True, Hermosa Beach is also one of the richest cities in the state, so Ed foundations routinely fundraise to fill up the funding gaps for the school district.

Why should a rich area get punished just because it's rich? How is that fair? Should a rich district, where the students do well academically, be punished by receiving less money just because they're doing well? The whole system is perverse in its incentives.

And what do we find happening to school districts across the state, even as they're getting as much funding as they can claw into their coffers? Major school districts like Los Angeles Unified are losing students drastically. At the height of its enrollment in the mid-2000s, Los Angeles Unified School District had 700,000 students. Those numbers have plummeted by half. 

Where did all the kids go? They go where their parents are going, of course!

And the parents are moving away, for starters, because they can't afford to live in the LA area (or just about anywhere else in California’s urban areas). The housing prices and cost of living stem from a whole host of other left-wing problems, and that would require another three articles to detail!

Parents are also fed up with the crappy education that their children are expected to endure. I know parents in Bell Gardens (another suburb of Los Angeles), who are expected to enroll their children in LAUSD schools. No matter the background or status, parents know what is best for their kids. If they see local public school failure and they can do something about it, they will make the change. They pull every string, including false addresses, so that they can enroll their children in better schools.

I can attest to this.

My parents did the same thing for me! We lived in the LA strip, now known as Harbor City. My assigned elementary school was Myler Street School in Carson, California. That school didn't accommodate English-speaking students very well. This is all based on what my parents told me, by the way. To them, I wasn't getting the education I needed, and most of the students were English language learners. My parents filed a false address so that I could enroll in Torrance Unified schools, starting with my second-grade year.

I know: I’m writing about forty years ago. Student populations were much larger at the time in Southern California. Today, enrollment has plummeted, and understandably so. In fact, across the state of California, schools are dealing with serious cash flow problems. Hemorrhaging staff, declining enrollment, and a growing awareness from parents that the best education they can get for their kids is just not going to be found in the public school system. 

California’s educational collapse has become the norm, which the political class in Sacramento has no interest in rectifying. Politicians do what the teachers unions tell them to do. From the state senators I spoke to face to face (and they were democrats), to the pundits and pollsters who follow all the politics in the state capital, it's the teachers unions that aggravate and act out as the 800 lbs gorilla in the room 

They want their money—actually, yours and my money. They want more teachers with smaller classes. They want funding for their left-wing causes. They want their unrelenting, never-ending dominance in the state legislature. They don't care about kids, because kids don't pay dues! They care about their power, and they only care about unions. 

One has to wonder what unions are going to do when the very Golden goose that feathered their financial nest has been killed by their own rapacious greed? Where do they think they're going to get the money from? Do they really think that Sacramento's Democratic politicians will just keep shoveling money at a school district where there are fewer and fewer students? 

 

No matter how lunatic, woke, and left-wing the voter electorate has become in California, voters have signaled an increasing distaste for bond measures; they have shown consistent, credible outrage against bullying teachers unions, enough that former Democrat Senate majority leader turned Republican lieutenant governor candidate Gloria Romero dedicated herself to school choice in educational opportunities for all California students. 

And even with money going in, no student enrollment or engagement is going out. 

A few years ago, I was discussing education policy with a state legislator in Idaho. She shared what I perceived to be a very radical notion: public education cannot be saved or redeemed, so let it die. I thought that was giving up the fight too quickly. Don't we owe it to every generation to have access to the most qualified and quality education possible? Shouldn't we take every step possible to ensure, reform, and restore public education to the greatness it had enjoyed fifty, sixty, even seventy years ago? 

Improving education is a noble cause, but parents don't have the time, energy, or the patience to hack away at the corruption and incompetence of their local government schools. Your kid only has one chance at a solid second-grade education, as well as for all subsequent grades. Should parents have to wait for any improvement in their child's scholastic opportunities? 

Parents should not have to wait; so, parents are voting with their feet, taking their kids to charter schools, to private schools, or setting up homeschool programs. Technology has made it all too easy, and it's no surprise that public education faces nothing but economic collapse as a result. 

California funding for public schools depends on attendance. If the kids don't show up, then there's no money. If the teachers don't have any students to teach, then they're going to be out of a job. Perhaps in the long term this is the best outcome to hope for.

Letter to the Editor: School Districts Ask Parents to Front the Costs

 

(Response to California Schools Are Going Broke -- No Surprise There!)

Mr Schaper-

I read your article on California school financing today. and based on the content I felt I should share a couple of anecdotes from my past (although you may already be familiar with both these examples)-

My daughter attended the Palos Verdes School district for 11 years and graduated from Pennisula High in 2016. During that time I had two interactions with the district that clearly defined the district's overall priorities.

The first occurred when I called the District office to register my daughter as a new student. After a couple rings, the automated "phone tree" offered several options to choose from. The first option stated "If you are a teacher with a payroll issue, please press 1." I found it quite telling that the number one district phone priority was staff payroll issues.

The second occurred anytime my wife or I called my daughter's school to report her absent due to illness. Each time the answering machine provided directions on how to properly report our child's abscence, including a requst that we write a check to cover the lost revenue related to our childs abscence. I forget the exact amount but it was around $90 a day. I always laughed at this silly request, but once again it demonstrated the district priorities regarding my daughter's education.

As I said, you may have already heard these stories, but if not I thought it was worth my time to share these real world examples of California school district policies.

Thank you,

Dave Skinner

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Mr. Skinner:

Thank you so much for your letter.

The phone tree anecdote I have never heard before. It sounds par for the course, sadly.

Teachers' unions hold incredible political sway over school districts, which is a crime, since most of the teachers don't live in the district; therefore, it's not their taxes paying for the schools!

Regarding the school's arrogant request that you compensate them for your daughter's absence, I have heard similar stories, and they all need to be reported.

Of course, the wealthier, higher-performing school districts like Palos Verdes USD are getting the shaft when it comes to state funding, so of course the district has to ask parents to chip in. I live in the South Bay (Torrance!), so I am all too aware of the Ed Foundations needed to help districts cover costs.

It's so unfair!

Arthur Schaper