A Maine woman has lodged a formal complaint about a sex education book, saying it violates the city’s obscenity ordinance.

JoAn Karkos refused to return the book, “It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie H. Harris, and urged police to issue a citation against Lewiston Public Library. The library eventually had police issue a summons for the book’s return.

According to other news articles, Karkos learned about the book from American Life League’s protest of the book, including a full-page advertisement in the Washington Times last year that likened the book to porn.

The American Life League released a video news release about the book this week. The American Life League is an opponent of Planned Parenthood and says it plans to release other news releases about the pro-choice organization’s activities. Planned Parenthood published an interview with the book’s author last year in which he responded to critics’ objections to his book.

How explicit do you think children’s sex education books can be without being too much for kids? Have you read or seen this book? You can read excerpts of the book.

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