Why We Must Read Young Adult Books that Deal with Sexual Content

Oral sex is another topic not avoided in new YA books. Many adults are uncomfortable with this topic and won't talk to each other about it; plane fewer will talk with teen on the contrary teenage oral sex has been talked about upon Oprah and the Dr. Phil display with middle school girls sitting in the heated seat and saying, "It isn't sex it is just something I do for my friend!" Casually or as the main theme, oral sex in being discussed in YA works The two most recent works with this subject are Rainbow Party by the agency of Paul Ruditis and Sandpiper by the agency of Ellen Wittlinger.

Rainbow Party has caused the greatest in quantity buzz, because the term defines an oral sex party where each girl wears a different shade of lipstick and at the extreme point of the party each boy's penis sports a rainbow of colors. Gin has invited six males and six females to her afternoon rainbow party, just enough time before her parents obtain home from work. There are many doubts in the sum of two units hours before the party, and the reader learns of each student's doubts as their voices alternate between the chapters. The value of this work comes from the realistic and straightforward discussion of these doubts. Those who are invited are like the kids in our classes: they want to be popular and they want to do what is right. Unfortunately it is sometimes impossible to do the one and the other In Rainbow Party only individual male shows up. The rainbow party not at any time happens-at least in this book-though it probably is happening in a gymnasium near you. At the extremity of the book, thirty-nine members of the sophomore class have gonorrhea, which is another reason we should read this work The students in the volume and in our classes are ignorant of the dangers of orally transmitted sexual diseases, as are many adults.