Are the passages in Anne Frank's diary too graphic for middle school? Northville mom Gail Horek says yes and filed a formal complaint with the school district, Maurielle Lue reports at Fox 2 News.
A seventh-grade class in Northville is reading a newer, unedited version of the famous "The Diary of Anne Frank."
In the book Frank talks about the discovery of her own genitalia in what some would consider graphic terms.
The book itself of course has served as a chilling account of the Holocaust during World War II. The first hand-writings of a young Jewish girl and the ordeal her family endured while hiding from the Nazis.
One of the "offending" passages:
"Until I was eleven or twelve, I didn't realize there was a second set of labia on the inside, since you couldn't see them. What's even funnier is that I thought urine came out of the clitoris. . . . When you're standing up, all you see from the front is hair. Between your legs there are two soft, cushiony things, also covered with hair, which press together when you're standing, so you can't see what's inside. They separate when you sit down and they're very red and quite fleshy on the inside. In the upper part, between the outer labia, there's a fold of skin that, on second thought, looks like a kind of blister. That's the clitoris."
