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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Man charged for alleged harassment of Yumi Stynes, who has received threats over sex education book

Yumi Stynes speaks during the Don't Kill Live Music Rally in Sydney in 2019
Yumi Stynes reportedly received death threats and violent, graphic, racist abuse online from critics of her book Welcome to Sex. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Police have arrested a man who allegedly threatened author Yumi Stynes, the co-author of an educational book aimed at helping teenagers understand sex and sexuality that was recently removed from shelves at Big W after staff members were abused.

Stynes – co-author of Welcome to Sex: Your No-silly Questions Guide to Sexuality, Pleasure and Figuring it Out – has reported receiving death threats and violent, graphic, racist abuse from critics of her book.

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