Original sentence: Despite the teachers providing an alternate book, parents still argued for it to be removed from curriculum due to its inappropriate content such as offensive language, sexually explicit content, including a scene described as "pornographic", and references to homosexuality, drugs, alcohol, and smoking
Edited sentence: Despite the teachers providing an alternate book, parents still argued for it to be removed from curriculum due to its inappropriate content such as offensive language, sexually explicit content, including a scene described as "pornographic", and references to homosexuality (how does this make any sense), drugs, alcohol, and smoking.In the novel, this behaviour is not gloryfied, but on the contrary, it is challenged.It does not encourage sexual behaviour, on the contrary.It makes teenagers challenge what they thought were "general truths" and it clearly encourages affective relationships instead of meaningless sexual acts.John Green clearly emphathisizes that adolescents should be entrusted to make their own decisions about what they think of nature of these concepts.Two pages later John Green writes about meaningful and earnest kissing that has nothing to do with sexual acts, and highlights the importance of meaning in relationships as opposed to the common behaviour among teenagers nowadays