Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (see The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books):
1,607 were challenges to "sexually explicit" material (up 161 since 1999);
1,427 to material considered to use "offensive language" (up 165 since 1999);
1,256 to material considered "unsuited to age group" (up 89 since 1999);
842 to material with an "occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism" (up 69 since 1999);
737 to material considered to be "violent" (up 107 since 1999);
515 to material with a homosexual theme or "promoting homosexuality" (up 18 since 1999) and
419 to material "promoting a religious viewpoint." (up 22 since 1999)
Other reasons for challenges included "nudity" (317 challenges, up 20 since 1999), "racism" (267 challenges, up 22 since 1999), "sex education" (224 challenges, up 7 since 1999), and "anti-family" (202 challenges, up 9 since 1999). Learn more at the American Library Association.
