I think both texts should be available to those who request them, but this cannot happen in a vacuum. We have to teach important context to our children early on, expose them to systems of ethics and overall ensure that they go into it understanding why Marquis de Sade was an absolute psychopath and why his writings must be read through the proper lens.

And Lolita is a tragedy, a story about flawed characters. Supporting access to the novel and supporting child abuse are two wildly orthogonal stances.

The problem is that teaching marquis de Sade to young boys will make them coomer horny terrorists (it’s literally extreme graphic sex/erotica meant to arouse the reader) to the girls in their class. School is not the place for coomer fiction, or pedo fiction.

Teaching Lolita is child abuse because for anyone who actually went through that experience, they have to not only relive it, but see a quasi justification for it through the fact that this book is considered “great”.

It’s just like that movie hard candy. It’s all pedophilic and shouldn’t be taught.