Looking At National Pornographic


 With my extra library time I had the chance to really explore the selections that were available to the elementary school kids. I found the National geographic on a rack behind the librarians desk in the 'ask for it' section and by this time the librarian had given me free reign of the place so I popped back and perused what looked like boring magazines just to see what was up. It was awesome they had animal pictures and adventure pictures and everything a ten year old boy could want. More than a ten year old boy could want as it happened. Not in the first but in the second copy I was picture reading I turned the page and boom, naked Africans. There were breasts and penises just hanging out in the breeze for the whole world to see. I was shocked and embarrassed and I quickly closed the magazine. I thought for sure that the librarian had seen me looking at the naked pictures in the magazine and that I was going to be in trouble because I had not specifically asked to read the National Geographic and I thought I may be in big trouble. I was nervous but I did want to make sure I saw what I saw so I nonchalantly snuck the magazine over to a table that was in the corner and took a stack of books over with me for cover. I opened it up to a innocent page and then kept a finger over in the naked section so if approached I could flip back quickly and act all casual and throw whoever it was off the trail. Well, I was not to good at keeping secrets so the next day when we had class library time I let slip to a classmate that if e were to go and get the National Geographic I could show him some nakedness. He went up and retrieved the smut and brought it over to a group of about six boys who all thought that it was hilarious that there were naked people in a magazine in the school library. One of the boys decided to share our find shocking some girls which it did and they were disgusted which was awesome so we moved as a heard sowing each table the pictures and watching them react. One of the girls was so offended that she ran and told the teacher that the boys had a magazine with naked women in it and we were showing it to every one. That got her attention and we were quickly rounded up. She asked about the magazine and when we showed her it was a National Geographic she got really upset. She called the class togeather into the classroom and we had a long talk about how the people in the pictures were from another place that had a different culture and it was not dirty or funny that they didn't have any clothes on. I was dreading that she would have somehow figured out that I was the instigator and singled me out for punishment or public naming and shamming but she didn't and that was good enough for me. The next day the principal came in to talk to us about being mature about library materials and once again told us there was nothing funny or wrong about naked Africans in National Geographic. He was wrong, there had been something funny about it but now there was definitely not.