Chilean Authorities Seize Sexy Retelling of 'Little Red Riding Hood' From Classrooms
Chilean authorities have begun to confiscate copies of a sexualized retelling of the classic children’s story "Little Red Riding Hood."
According to the BBC, 283 copies of Colombian author Pilar Quintana’s “Little Red Riding Hood Eats the Wolf” were innocently passed out to primary schools this year.
Quintana’s book, which was published in Chile in 2012, is a collection of six explicit short stories. In one section there is a sexual encounter between a teacher and a female student. Another story details the rape of a 13-year-old girl.
A teacher in Rio Bueno was apprised of the inappropriate material when a young boy informed him of the book’s contents. The mayor of Rio Bueno, Luis Reyes, brought the situation to Chile's education ministry this week, saying that the book could cause irreparable damage to their students.
"To describe in such a detailed manner the violation of an underage girl does not help in any way in the education process of young children," explained the Reyes.
The Chilean government has announced that the book "does not meet the appropriate pedagogical requirements to be included in the national curriculum."
Quintana’s book is, of course, not the first sexualized take on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Tex Avery’s racy and wildly influential 1945 cartoon “Swing Shift Cinderella” had a night club performing Little Red Riding Hood trying to avoid the advances of an enamored Big Bad Wolf.
In 1979 British Author Angela Carter reworked a series of children’s stories for adults in her book “The Bloody Chamber.” One of her stories became the source material for the highly erotic horror movie “In the Company of Wolves.”
In an interview, the late writer spoke of the troubles she had with broadcasters cutting out outré material for the public. Speaking of what became of her grown-up version of “Puss-in-Boots,” Carter said she was shocked at the censorship.
“They cut it! They removed, according to the producer, about half a spool of bed springs!” said the author of “The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography.”
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