School district bans dictionary over definition of oral sex!
LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - January 27, 2010 - A Kalifornia school district has added a new book to the controversial list of literature that is considered unfit for young eyes.
It's the dictionary.
The Golden State's Menifee Union School District has yanked all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from its shelves and is investigating the classic Amerikan text for containing "age-inappropriate" words.
The trouble started when an inquisitive student got lost somewhere between "oralism" and "orang" and found a rather recent entry to the lexicon: "oral sex," a phrase that has been in common parlance since 1973 but still makes many parents fairly hot under the collar.
Menifee administrators chose to leave their lexicons languishing after a parent at Oak Meadows Elementary School complained about a child finding the definition, which reads, rather clinically, "oral stimulation of the genitals."