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FLAMER
By Mike Curato
ISBN: 978-1-62779-641-5
Book Summary: A young teenage Boy Scout is bullied while coming to grips with his homosexuality and its religious implications.
Summary of Concerns: This book contains alternate sexualities; sexual activities; sexual nudity; profanity and derogatory term; violence including self- harm; and controversial religious commentary.
Book Content
| Page | Content |
| 14 | “Hey, Navarro, suck any good dicks lately? Hahahahaha” |
| 22 | “What’s wrong, Navarro? I thought you like a big sausage in your mouth! Haha!” The illustration on the middle of the page depicts a young teenage boy with a hotdog on a stick balanced between his legs. Three other boys are watching him, laughing. |
| 23 | The illustration on this page depicts the young teenager described above, standing behind another young teenage boy whom is bent over with a hot dog bun opened behind his buttocks. The teenage standing up with the hotdog on a stick is saying, “Okay, who wants my hot weiner?” The other boy is saying, “Oh, yeah, baby, slide it right into my buns.” |
| 26 | Usually his bark is worse than his bite, but one time he was so mad at my little brother, he went to hit him… …but mom stepped in between them. |
| 131 | The illustration on the top of the page depicts the main character sitting on the floor of a tent. There are two pairs of legs hanging off the edge of beds on either side of him. The legs are bare and one pair of legs has a pair of pants pooled on the floor around their ankles. The text on the image reads: Uh-Oh…I think I figured out what “takin’ care of business” means. “We’re each busting a load into this bottle. If you don’t cum, you have to drink it! Hahahaha!” “Gimme that! I’ll show you.” The illustration on the bottom-right-side of the page depicts the main character, wide-eyed, sitting on the floor with his knees to his chest and his arms crossed over them. In the foreground, there is part of an exposed buttock as the boy is pulling his pants down while facing the main character. |
| 135 | The illustration on the bottom-left-side of the page depicts a boy laying in bed in a zoomed in view of his waist. His left hand is lifting up the blanket covering his bottom-half. His right hand is under the covers near his groin. The text on the image reads: But I feel so…excited… |
| 306 | The illustration on this page depicts an arm and hand with the fist clenched with the bottom facing upward. There is another hand lightly pressing a knife to the wrist. |
| Profanity/Derogatory | Count |
|---|---|
| Ass | 14 |
| Bitch | 3 |
| Cock | 2 |
| Dick | 5 |
| Faggot/Fag | 14 |
| Fuck | 15 |
| Piss | 1 |
| Prick | 1 |
| Queer | 2 |
| Shit | 13 |
