Missouri library will ban porn star book – after 20 people on waiting list read it

Many libraries across the country have been at the center of increased Republican-backed efforts to ban books that discuss race, gender or sexuality. Photograph: AztecBlue/Alamy

A Missouri library system will ban a book that critics are calling too sexually explicit – but they are allowing the 20 people on the book’s waiting list to read it first.

A committee with the St Charles city-county library system in eastern Missouri has moved to ban the book Bang Like a Porn Star: Sex Tips from the Pros, but will allow everyone on the book’s waiting list before 21 November to read it first, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported.