Platner Adviser Wanted D*ck Pic In ‘Puberty Guide’ For 10-Year-Old Boys

An adviser to embattled Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner reportedly wanted to use photos of his own penis in a puberty book for boys as young as 10 years old.

Morris Katz, who has also worked for New York City’s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, published the 112-page book titled “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Puberty ― and Shouldn’t Be Googling: For Curious Boys” in 2020.

As the New York Post reported, Katz made the revelation in a footnote below a series of images using snakes and butterflies, among other things, to depict physical changes to male genitalia during puberty: “At first, we were going to use images of my penis to get this point across but the publisher said it was inappropriate so here we are, with some fruit and animal metaphors.”

Billed as a “puberty book written by the cool older brother,” the Amazon description says that it provides “facts about developmental changes to tween and teen boys’ bodies and brains are spelled out in fun, familiar, boy-speak and illustrated in edgy graphic novel format.”

The Platner fixer made headlines earlier in the week when the Bangor Daily News first reported that he’d been behind threats aimed at a former staffer who contributed to reports exposing Platner’s explicit text messages sent to multiple women while he was married.

The message, sent through a third party, was directed at former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald, a Democrat, over her cooperation with The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

“Just want to be clear on where we are right now,” he wrote, adding that Katz warned her that she would face a smear campaign if she assisted with the story. “If the story goes in its current iteration we’ll communicate directly on the record, and by name, that Genevieve violated the personal trust of Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.”

He also appeared to lash out at her in an X post, although he did not mention her by name, once the story went public: “It’s no one’s f*cking business what happened in Graham & Amy’s marriage before he was ever a candidate for office. There should be no place in our politics for incompetent, opportunistic operatives who violate privacy, betray trust, and prioritize vengeance over decency.”