She wants her relationship with her boyfriend Michael to have emotions attached to it. She does not want to lose her virginity merely for the sake of physical satisfaction or curiosity. Katherine, the protagonist, wants to make her first experience mean something. The story is about young love, the first sexual encounter of a high school girl.
Despite their arguments, however, Blume's book still stirs the emotions and not just of those who read it for enjoyment. Some parents have complained that they could understand why the book might have been banned when they were teens in the 1970s, but they do not understand why it is banned in the early 2000s. The controversy revolves around the candid discussion of teenage sex that Forever … provides. The book even has made it on the American Library Association's (ALA) top one hundred banned books list. Despite the fact that it is one of the most popular with her readers, it is also one of the most controversial of Blume's books, with some librarians and county officials having banned it shortly after it appeared and as recently as 2005.
Forever …, published in 1975, is Judy Blume's eleventh book and in some ways has remained a troublesome publication for the author.
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