Ballsack

The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron, won this year’s Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children's literature.

Now the book has the usual suspects clutching pearls, collapsing on the fainting couch, and banning the book from schools and libraries. The horror:

scrotum

Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much. It sounded medical and secret, but also important.

Yes, right there in black and white, the word scrotum. Referring, specifically, to one belonging to a dog. This is the incredible length people can go to to get uptight about sex. For pity's sake, you can see a dog's ballsack walking down the street on any day at high noon in any town in America.

Dog's balls.
(Credit.)

Link: The New York Times, With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar.

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