Laid: Young People's Experience with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture

Name: Laid: Young People's Experience with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture
Author: Shannon T. Boodram

Shannon T. Boodram · 2024

Literary fiction

Banned in 1 country

About this book

Laid: Young People's Experience with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture is a nonfiction collection edited by Shannon T. Boodram that presents young people's accounts of sex, relationships, consent, pressure, and media influence. The book is intended to document real experiences and start frank conversations about sexual culture.

Why it was banned

Listed by PEN America as banned pending investigation in Escambia County Public Schools, Florida, in August 2023.

Censorship history

United States school ban context: PEN America's 2023–2024 index lists Laid as banned pending investigation in Escambia County Public Schools in August 2023. The book's content makes the censorship mechanism clear: a nonfiction work about young people's sexual experiences was caught by a districtwide review climate shaped by Florida restrictions on sexual content. The anti-censorship concern is not whether every title is suitable for every grade, but whether blanket removals erase resources that help older students think critically about consent, pressure, and sexual culture.