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Valentine's Day Drawing Gets Student Paper Pulled

Oprah_wideweb__470x3122"The drawing in question ran under the hot-pink headline "Have a happy Vagina Day!" The paper's editor-in-chief, 15-year-old Richard Edmond, said he was trying to raise awareness of violence against women with a lead story about playwright Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues."  (School newspaper drops a V-bomb)

Knowing that some of you are squeamish, and considering the time of day, I'm putting the picture of the front page in question below. Click at your own discretion.

2yt2861o_2Image courtesy of Oh My Goddess.

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