Kids get their Clinton on!

A battle could be brewing in the book stacks over a new novel about teens and oral sex.

Gee, you think so?

The editor of Rainbow Party hopes the book about teens and oral sex will 'scare' young readers.

I'll bet $20 his marketing department told him different.

Rainbow Party (Simon & Schuster, $8.99) is about a group of teens who plan an oral-sex party at which each of the girls wears a different color of lipstick.

Rainbow of colors on your Clinton. Get it, hopelessly unhip Mom & Dad?

Ruditis says the book was never meant to sensationalize sex parties. "We just wanted to present an issue kids are dealing with," he says.

Of course not. I believe your motives are pure. Just stay the hell away from our kids.

Bethany Buck, Ruditis' editor at Simon & Schuster, came up with the idea for the book and says she hopes it will "scare" young readers.

Like, Boo!, dude.

Suzanne Kelly, a buyer for the Chester County Book and Music Co. in West Chester, Pa., which will stock a limited number of Rainbow, agrees. She says the book's message that oral sex "really is sex" and that teens can contract STDs through such sexual practices far outweigh the controversial story line.

WTF? If this is an important message, shouldn't all stores be stocked floor to ceiling with this vital tome? I detect a whiff of...

"I can't imagine anyone reading this book and saying, 'Hey, what a great idea. Let's send out invitations,' " Ruditis says.


Gillian Engburg, an editor at the American Library Association's Booklist magazine, says her publication will not review Rainbow. But the reason, she says, has nothing to do with the subject matter. "We just didn't feel the book had enough literary merit to justify purchase."

(Thanks to Laura Ingraham for the heads up on this literary blight. Coming soon to a blog near you: A Michelle Malkin column on this.)