Man charged for alleged harassment of Yumi Stynes, who has received threats over sex education book
by Guardian staff from World news | The Guardian on (#6D67F)
The 23-year-old was arrested at Balmain police station and charged with one count of use carriage service to menace, harass or offend
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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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