Title: Book Banning – UNSUITABLE
Headings: Book Banning
Book Banning
Book Banning and Romance Fiction in the United States
Challenged Romance Novels
Conclusion
References

Content: Today, roughly 250-350 books are challenged each year. ( Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books List, n.d.) The following infographic displays reasons books were challenged in 2013, confirming the fact that some of the most common reasons include ‘sexually explicit’ and ‘offensive language’. ( Crum, 2014)
Among the states which ban books the most are Texas, Oregon, North Carolina and Connecticut. ( Crum, 2014) As previously stated, parents and librarians are those who are most often found to ban books. In an excerpt of an interview from Scott DiMarco, a librarian and library director, we learn why banning books can sometimes be used to prove a point. “ By using a familiar and well-liked local author [Dennis Miller], the sharp point of what harm censorship can really do to a community could be driven home in a way that it never could with the standard list that we all hang up every year.” ( DiMarco, 2013) DiMarco banned a book in order to make his community aware of the effects of having free speech taken away. “ In conclusion, a typical set of programs on the topic of censorship were met by our campus community with general apathy and pleasant indifference. Our unorthodox (okay, heretical) experiment was very successful in highlighting how a simple bureaucratic decision can curb our freedom to read.” (