Sex and Seuss Too Close for Comfort
“After her 13-year-old daughter got an unexpected sex lesson at a Border’s Bookstore on Sunrise Boulevard, Gail Frandsen was outraged… Frandsen says sex and Seuss are a little too close for comfort at the Fort Lauderdale Borders, and a Local 10 Problem Solver hidden camera spotted exactly what she was concerned about. On the same table as several Dr. Seuss stationery kits, Local 10 Problem Solver Jeff Weinsier spotted postcards titled ‘Position of the Day’ on the outside of the box. On the cards inside there were graphic pictures of sex acts. And the cards were displayed right next to the Dr. Seuss bookmarks. Frandsen says her 13-year-old daughter was supposed to be looking at the Seuss stationery, but the bright red box caught her eye. She grabbed the postcards and began to read out loud. ‘She read the positions and inserting sexual organs. She read it in (a) graphic manner,’ Frandsen said.” —Local10.com (US)
You can understand why parents don’t like to see porn displayed alongside children’s books, but odds are that that bookstore was extremely popular among local kids. Adults go to magazine shops and pretend to be interested in computer journals or housekeeping magazines while really browsing the porn rack. Probably the local kids were doing the same — pretending an interest in all the Dr. Seuss stationery while really checking out the sex postcards.
And when you think about it, somehow it’s so appropriate that the kid bait was Dr. Seuss and not Curious George or Big Bird or the Hardy Boys. Dr. Seuss, after all, is so incredibly twisted. Freud would no doubt have had plenty to say about the Cat in the Hat — um, maybe because there’s a synonym for cat that has obvious sexual connotations, and even “hat” has certain unofficial meanings, as when it is used as a slang word for “condom.” Or take Green Eggs and Ham, which you could interpret as a parable of seduction or even rape, since it involves one character harrassing another into trying something that he doesn’t want to try. You can easily imagine transposing its weird imagery into something sexual — green eggs are breasts, green breasts, and ham is an ass…
Green eggs are breasts, and ham is ass ? Might i ask to mail me how the **** you got to such a ludicrously, mind-blisterringly far-fetched conclusion ? Or are you simply repeating somebody else’s equally far-fetched interpretation ?
I for one loved the Dr. Seuss books as a child, and i still do enjoy the shelf-full of them my niece and nephew constantly want me to read to them. “Green eggs and ham” and “the cat in the hat” are two of their favourites, and so far i’ve yet to discover any connection to sex in the books, whatsoever. And that after i’ve been reading them for what, 20-odd years ?
My complaint is they often put the sex books right near the engineering books, so you find stuff like “ass fucking” right next to the good ones on antenna theory and SMD inductor design. I mean come on! If I wanted to check out the smut I’d go check out the smut.
I understand the point about the kids books and the adult books. I am sure this was an accident, or an oversight. I used to work in a bookstore, so believe me I have heard it nearly everyday about the adult books and where to put them. Is there anywhere in a bookstore where the sex books are more appropriate? Is close to nutrition better than close to magazines? There is no good spot to put them.
If people would stop buying it, it would not be in the stores. Then all of the chastity chasing people would not have books to blame anymore for the breakdown of their family values. They could go back to blaming video games and television.
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