I am asking that you review your check-out practices and make the changes necessary to prevent it. I do not want this to happen again to my niece or other children. How can it be that a young girl can check-out this book? Why would it even be located in a place where children would have easy access to it? Needless to say, Mr De Nevers was not keen on his pre-teen niece having access to such material, and he outlined his concerns in a letter to Bill Ptacek, director of the KCLS.
It’s sometimes gets a bit rapey, in other words. The genre, which is dominated by female authors, is known for romanticizing aggressive and sometimes non-consensual sex. The book is quite clearly marked as “yaoi.”įor those of you who might be unfamiliar with the term, “yaoi” is used to describe fiction that focuses on male homosexual romance marketed towards the ladies. He flicked through the title, only to discover it contained drawings of two garden-variety bishies engaging in “rather violent” sex. De Nevers realized something was amiss when he noticed the book’s “Parental Advisory” sticker. One Travis De Nevers has filed a complaint with the King County Library System (KCLS) after discovering his 10-year-old niece managed to check out a copy of an adults-only yaoi manga.ĭescribed as a “huge anime fan,” De Nevers’ niece borrowed a number of manga, including Makoto Tateno’s Hero Heel. A 10-year-old girl managed to borrow Makoto Tateno’s Hero Heel from a King County Library.