What are some common elements that people see in books that they like to ban?

Censorship- the act, process or practice of censoring.

There are many reasons why books get banned and it is all because of censorship. Ideas should not be banned from reading, especially in a free country. It's not like the books that are banned, 99% of the time have absurd or crazy material in them, they usually have ideas that are happening all over the world or did at one point or another in history. Its crazy really to banned books, books are a way or learning or understanding new ideas. They help our mind to grow, and because some people get offended the books cannot be studied. These issues aren't new they have been around for 100s of years and individuals should get the chance to understand and discuss them, not banned them.

The majority of the books that are banned have one or more of these common ideas:

Racial Issues- books that have racism, towards any race, in them are rarely excepted.

Encouragement of "damaging" lifestyles- homosexuality, prostitution, or alcoholism in the book

Blasphemous Dialog- words that are offensive to anyone, example, using words like "God" or "Jesus" in a swearing context

Sexual situations or dialog- are censored 99% of the time.

Even though these things take place in society, people don't want to read about them. Maybe they don't want to admit that these things do happen. Just because we censor them out of books doesn't mean we can censor it out of real life.