Children who have experienced incest have complex traumas and harrowing emotions that can take intensive work to heal. Books can be one tool in that process, and there are no doubt thoughtful ways this subject matter can be presented at various age and reading levels.
What’s in question here is whether graphic, gratuitous portrayals of incest normalize adult-child rape and whether a concerted effort to expose children to this material is actually pedophilic grooming. A broader question might be why these books are being pushed on children at all. Legally, there is also the question of whether graphic scenes cross the line to child pornography.
Push tells the story of a young girl who, throughout her life, is raped and abused by her father and mother. Twice pregnant with her father’s child, she even witnesses the rape of her own daughter by their father. The excerpts below cannot be read aloud on television or the radio – yet this book is available at Westlake High School.
“… rocking under Carl now, my tw*t jumping juicy, it feel good. I feel shamed. ‘See, see,’ he slap my thigh like cowboys do horses on TV, then he squeeze my nipple, bit down on it. I come some more. ‘See. You LIKE it! You jus’ like your mama – you die for it!’ He pull his d*ck out, the white cum stuff pour out my hole wet up the sheets.”
I’m so busy getting beat, cooking, cleaning, p*ssy and *sshole either hurting or popping.
Start wif his finger between her legs. I say Car what you doing! He say shut your big ass up! This is good for her. Then he git off me, take off her Pampers and try to stick his thing in Precious. You know what trip me out is it almost can go in Precious!
Below are two audio readings of Push at the March 29, 2022 Eanes ISD School Board meeting. Do you want your child reading this?
