BREAKING: GREATER HOUSTON, TX– Fort Bend Independent School District currently houses at least five sexually explicit books, including one with shockingly blasphemous language.

Porn books in Texas schools are not isolated or accidental occurrences. The silent infiltration of explicit and disturbing child-grooming materials into public schools began in 2013, similar to the method cancer cells enter the body: soundlessly.

Likewise, when undetected, they multiply and blossom into an uncontrollable, malignant illness.  These books can now be found in school districts across the state and across the nation.

Here are the books in Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD) that the district is aware of. This list by no means encompasses the entire body of inappropriate literature geared towards Texas children.

Content warning: This article contains multiple descriptions, images and quotes of sexually explicit materials. Please read with care.

The Five Books in Fort Bend Independent School District.

The first title is Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan. Found at FBISD’s Hightower High School, the book “contains obscene sexual illustrations and commentary; obscene sexual nudity; profanity; and alternate gender ideologies.”

The book is a predatory piece of literature that serves, essentially, as a how-to manual on all things sexual for children and teenagers.

“It sounds dumb, I know. And I mean, like, obviously I know it’s sex when a penis goes inside a vagina. But what about all the other stuff? Like, oral sex? Or hand jobs and fingering? Do things count as SEX or are they, I dunno, their own subcategory,” the book says on page 16.

“What if you’re rubbing someone’s junk through their pants and they get off, but you never actually touched their skin. Is that sex or not? And what about kinky people who do these things that are TOTALLY sexual, but it’s not, like, SEX-sex- like, uh, like spanking or being tied up with ropes and dangled from the ceiling?”

Let’s Talk About It continues on like this throughout its entirety, fully illustrating multiple sexual acts and male and female genitalia. It also teaches children how to masturbate and recommends watching porn and joining “communities out there who share your interests and have all kinds of advice.”

In a profanity count, it clocked in at one count of a**, one count of c**t, one count of d***, ten counts of f*** and four counts of s**t.

The second title is What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold, which “contains explicit sexual nudity and sexual activities; controversial religious commentary; and profanity.” It’s available for your child to check out at Clements High School and Dulles High School libraries.

Interestingly, when What Girls Are Made Of was reprinted in 2019, the cover was revamped to display cartoon imagery, likely to catch the attention of younger and child audiences.

What Girls Are Made Of is about a sixteen-year-old girl with an infatuation for a boy at her school. The two begin to have highly explicit and descriptive sex on page 19, and this continues throughout the book.

“Seth thrusts forward onto the bed and between my legs and against the thin barrier that separates us. The hard nose of my teddy bear pokes against my back and I twist to reach it, grab it by the arm or leg, and toss it to the ground,” the book says on page 34.

“My thong gets twisted as Seth takes it off, and I hear it rip when he grows impatient and yanks too hard. I shouldn’t care but I do, because the thong is brand new and it matches the bra, and lace can’t be sewn back together. But I don’t say anything, and then Seth rises above me like a wave and smiles, and I smile back and then he pushes into me, hard and fast and it hurts and feels good all mixed together.”

Perhaps more shockingly, the book glorifies abortion and makes jokes about rape and Christianity.

Page 107 reads, “I don’t believe in God… But if I did, I’d thank him every day for both of my abortions.” Over the course of ten pages, one drawn out scene describes a character creating a monologue about engaging in sex and oral sex with Jesus.

The profanity count clocks in at two counts of a**, two counts of b****, one count of c**t, three counts of d***, fourteen counts of f***, one count of pi** and sixteen counts of s**t.

And then, there’s the third title: Push by author Sapphire. This deeply traumatic and triggering novel is about “a heavily sexually abused teenager’s life circumstances [changing] when a new mentor teaches her to read.”

The book contains countless scenes of “explicit sexual activities including incest and molestation” by the teenage girl’s abusive father, who impregnated her twice, among other sexual assailants, “sexual nudity; excessive/frequent profanity and derogatory terms; controversial racial commentary; drug use; and violence including self-harm.”

Push is crudely profane, featuring 31 instances of a**, 47 of b****, 11 of cr*****, 3 of c**t, 9 of d***, 5 of f****t, 83 of f***, 22 of n*****, 2 of pi**, 18 of p****, 4 of p**a and 79 of uses s**t.

Throughout the book, the protagonist recalls the recurring molestation and sexual assault she experienced as a five- or six-year-old child, often by her own father.

Due to the triggering elements in Push, we won’t provide direct quotes from the book. View the flagged scenes on BookLooks at your own discretion. It’s available at Missouri City Middle School, Marshall High School, Bush High School, Hightower High School, Travis High School and Willowridge High School.

The fourth title, Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin, is about a “sixteen-year-old girl [who] seeks revenge for having been raped at a party while others watched.”

The book “contains violence; inexplicit sexual activities including sexual assault, excessive/frequent profanity and derogatory terms; and alcohol and drug use.”

Further, one character in the book is known among her schoolmates for engaging in sexual acts with teachers. The author incessantly pokes jokes about substance abuse and rape with frequent verbiage about “f***ing drunk sl**s” and “roofied sl**s.”

“You’re a twisted b****, and not just the way Banks talked about you when he wanted to f*** you for it,” reads page 274.

“I say, ‘We’re nothing to each other. I’m just a girl you wanted to f***. You’re just a boy I let f*** me because I wanted to see how many of your friends I could make you kill,” reads page 316.

Foul is Fair is available for children at Elkins High School. It contains “f**k,” in its various tenses, a total of 181 times.

Finally, the fifth title is Tricks by Ellen Hopkins. Hopkins incidentally used to write child-appropriate books about telescopes and space. The author, for unknown reasons, has since switched gears.

Tricks “contains sexually explicit excerpts involving minors. There are also excerpts containing explicit child rape and abuse; illegal drug abuse; graphic violence; underage alcohol consumption; and adult and child prostitution.”

The book is downright erotica, detailing long, drawn-out sex and drug usage scenes which involve minors.

“We were making out hot and heavy. He started to unbutton my blouse. I let him. And when he unzipped my jeans, I helped him help me out of them. Snared by the heat of his kiss, I barely noticed when he slipped out of his own Levis. Skin urgent against skin, only panties and boxers between us, I was ready to shed that final thin barrier, allow him access to the most private part of me,” says page 50.

“OMG. I can’t believe I’m saying okay to heroin. But I am. Except, ‘No needles! No way will I shoot up anything.’ I wait for his reaction. No problem. We’ll just chase the dragon, okay? He means heated tinfoil and a rolled-up bill to grab the smoke, draw it up my nose. I’ve seen people at parties do meth the same way. Even before Bryn creases the foil into a deep V, my heart starts racing. Fear is exhilarating, all on its own. I watch him drop a pinhead of H into the makeshift bowl, and goose bumps cover my arms. I have no idea what to expect when the smoke lifts into the dollar bill ‘straw.’ Ugh. It tastes like rotten ketchup. Bitter and harsh in my throat,” reads page 445.

This one is available in nine different high schools across FBISD.

In June 2023, House Bill 900 was signed into law “relating to the regulation of library materials sold to or included in public school libraries.”

This law requires new standards to restrict sexually explicit material. These standards were approved in December 2023 by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the State Board of Education.

So, are these five titles currently being reviewed under the new TSLAC standards? FBISD has currently not provided a public answer or comment.

FBISD Trustee David Hamilton told Texas Scorecard, “I made multiple attempts to get the former superintendent to review this type of library content and she was more interested in tax increases and hiring more district administrators while blaming teachers for our literacy rates and dismissing concerns from teachers and parents as ‘a few angry teachers’ and ‘elitist parents.’”

“[The new Superintendent] and the School Board now have the responsibility to solve these challenges and move Fort Bend ISD forward,” Hamilton added.

How X-Rated Titles Ended Up In Children’s School Libraries.

Katy and Fort Bend Christian Magazines have reported on porn books in Texas public schools on numerous occasions throughout the past several years. Aside from FBISD, we uncovered explicitly sexual titles in:

• Montgomery County

• Katy Independent School District

• Collin County

In Collin County’s McKinney Independent School District, northeast of Dallas, a father was banned for life from school property for merely asking when porn would be removed from school libraries.

Yet for all the investigating we’ve done, we’ve barely scratched the surface. This issue is far deeper than we’ve ever imagined. The cancer has spread throughout Texas, and further, throughout the U.S.

How did the sexualization of children within the public school system get so bad?

To identify the full scope and source of this problem, we spoke to a Texan mother who is actively advocating against the systematic sexualization and indoctrination of children through school library books and curriculum.

This mother’s incredible accounts and first-hand experiences shed light to a dark story. She began testifying and advocating at the Capitol in 2019 and at the School Board of Education (SBOE) in Texas in 2020. Further, this mom helped bring the first sexually explicit book to the Texas House of Representatives in March 2019.

This book was It’s Perfectly Normal, which “instructs young children, aged 10 years and older, about puberty, sexual intercourse, STD’s, pregnancy, abortion, and sexual abuse.”

 

The mother has asked to remain anonymous in order to avoid getting “doxxed,” to protect her family, and to retain the ability to continue her fight. We’ll call her Sophia.

Sophia lives in North Texas. However, she’s from the greater Houston area, and “even went to school at Missouri City Junior High.”

“When I saw that Push was in the middle school I went to, it made me sick to my stomach,” Sophia recalled. “I’m protective over my kids and my state.”

“So many parents, like me, started speaking up, going to the Capitol and testifying before the State Board of Education to try to clean things up.”

“It’s interesting, because they talk a lot about the mental health of children in schools. So why are they providing garbage? If school districts provide sexually explicit materials and highly profane materials, can they really discipline a child when they’ve cursed out their teacher? Even though that’s probably in the student code of conduct,” she remarked.

“Using profanity is a level 3 violation in many schools, yet [through books] they promote these behaviors. Children’s and teen’s brains are literally still forming. Look into the science of neuroplasticity,” Sophia recommended. “What makes the brain fire, makes the brain wire.”

A page of QR codes that Sophia created and took down to the Texas Capitol. Use your phone camera to scan each QR code for multitudes of information on sexually explicit titles in public school libraries and the effects of these materials on a child’s forming mind. 

Sophia identified titles like Push and Let’s Talk About It throughout the state- not just in urban areas, but in some very rural, conservative areas.

In four days, Sophia and other Texan moms proved to the lieutenant governor that the book Let’s Talk About It was in schools in every Senate District in Texas.

“We created this spreadsheet,” Sophia described. “We couldn’t possibly search the libraries of 1,200 plus schools in Texas, but we conducted a lot of research, and we stopped once we had identified that this book was accessible by students in all 31 Senate Districts.”

Sophia then described her hands-on efforts to get HB 900 passed. She worked closely with Texas Rep. Jared Patterson (R-HD 106) on the bill.

“Now, for the first time ever, we have mandatory minimum library standards. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission, according to HB 900, had to create new mandatory standards for library collection. TSLAC completed that in December.”

Like us, Sophia wondered, “How did these books creep into schools?”

She found the answer: They crept in through recommended reading lists.

“Do you mean that we can no longer trust the American Library Association and the Texas Librarian Association’s recommended reading lists?” one long time educator asked Sophia.

No, we can not.

Annually, the Texas Library Association and the American Library Association put out recommended reading lists and awards lists for public school libraries. The school administrators then purchase these books with neither further inquiry nor content scanning.

Texas House Bill 900, which Sophia fought to get passed, was designed to fix a bit of this problem. With its passage, Texas public schools will need to remove all sexually explicit books and screen list-recommended books to check for adult themes and explicit content.

With the five titles uncovered in FBISD, clearly this measure is a work in progress, as schools have not yet pulled all the explicit books they’d purchased in the past.

The Texas Library Association has recommended lists with highly provocative titles since 2013. Five years later, in 2018, a viral hashtag was created: #DisruptTexts.

“The founders of the #DisruptTexts movement- English educators Tricia Ebarvia, Lorena Germán, Kim Parker and Julia Torres- offer a new set of tools to create a more equitable ELA curriculum through recurring chats and a crowdsourced website of resources,” ASCD reported.

This hashtag was part of an initiative to remove classic literature from school libraries and public libraries.

“They’re the ones who went after To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984 and Of Mice and Men, to name a few,” Sophia said. “And this was to make room for the push of sexually explicit books in schools.”

“There was also #OwnVoices. If you backtrack this hashtag over several years, you’ll see how ‘including diverse characters’ strayed from having characters with disabilities or characters of color into full on porn.”

“If you remember the page of Let’s Talk About It that shows a man having sex with a woman from behind while standing up, you will notice that he has a prosthetic leg. Somehow that is supposed to make it okay to show a child.”

So, the guise of “creating space for diverse characters” shifted quickly and drastically from inclusivity to porn, as if “inclusivity” was a guise to indoctrinate and sexualize children from the get-go. Well-intended people never could have anticipated the true sinister motivations and outcomes.

To remove the classics from schools, school librarians relied on the “weeding process.” Every school has a policy for weeding out books that are worn, old or haven’t been checked out in a while.

Then, they consult lists. Book vendors often offer pre-populated lists for purchase by schools that include awarded and recommended books.Awarded books receive shelf privileges in school libraries; schools are supposed to keep them for approximately three years longer than non-awarded literature.

In a sense, the Texas Library Association and its parent organization, the American Library Association committed a devastating offense against school libraries, Texas children and taxpayers. They observed the opportunity created by school districts’ false sense of security, lack of screening and complete trust in recommended reading lists and awards lists, and they used this opening to slither X-rated and agenda-motivated titles onto shelves.