Böckerna i Dune-serien är bland flera hundra böcker som plockats bort från skolorna i Collier county, Florida i ett försök att efterfölja den statliga lagen HB 1069. Lagen syftar till att ge skolstyrelserna ökat inflytande över bibliotekens samlingar, utökade möjligheter till att ifrågasätta (challenge) böcker som porträtterar eller beskriver sexuella relationer.
I beslutsunderlaget från distriktets skolstyrelse så skriver man bland annat:
(Angående första boken) "(pluggedin.com review) Paul, a 15‐year‐old boy, has the
option of taking Jamis’ wife, Harah, as his wife. The Fremen have an orgy after a ritual. Paul looks into the future and sees him and Chani having sex. Chani kisses him on the cheek. Paul later kisses Chani’s palm. Stilgar kisses Paul’s blade, pledging his fealty to Paul. Count Fenring gives slave women as a bribe. The Baron Harkonnen expresses sexual desire for young boys. He also shows interest in his young nephew Feyd‐
Rautha. The baron compares a young man brought to him to his nephew. He was sexually active in his youth, fathering Jessica as an illegitimate child. Men imply that
they will sexually assault Jessica."
Angående tredje boken:
"p. 290 The pressure of his multi‐memories exploded the time‐frozen englobement which he had tried to resist. He felt twining bodies, the sounds of sex, rhythms laced in every sensory impression: lips, breathing, moist breaths, tongues. Somewhere in his vision there were helix shapes, coal‐colored, and he felt the beat of those shapes as they turned within him. A voice pleaded in his skull: “Please, please, please, please . . .”
There was an adult beefswelling in his loins and he felt his mouth open,
holding, clinging to the girder‐shape of ecstasy. Then a sigh, a lingering
groundswelling sweetness, a collapse."