Barnes & Noble ban taboo stories - the issue of censorship and erotica
As a taboo erotica author, I've found that what began as a very successful and lucrative writing career has been pretty much sabotaged by media pressure, censorship and hypocrisy. The trouble began in 2013 when a UK newspaper ran an article about how a search showed up erotica titles when searching for something else on an ebook store.
This led to many retailers dropping their taboo titles including mine, though until recently Barnes & Noble held out and carried on selling them. Now they have followed suit, yet it is notable that they still stock morally 'difficult' works such as 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade, which features paedophilia amongst other things. Lolita by Nabokov is another contentious book. This, to me, is double standards and hypocrisy of the highest order!
My own work never veered beyond the generally accepted boundary of depicting sex between consenting adults, yet my sales are now a fraction of what they once were due to this attack on free speech, as I see it. Not only does it affect authors like me trying to make a living, but deprives many readers of books that they should be allowed to enjoy.
No, erotica titles should not be showing up in searches for 'innocent' things, but that is easily resolved with adult content filters. To ban taboo erotica entirely is ridiculous and unnecessary. Smashwords is now the only retailer that will still sell my more hardcore taboo titles, and who knows how long that may last?
This led to many retailers dropping their taboo titles including mine, though until recently Barnes & Noble held out and carried on selling them. Now they have followed suit, yet it is notable that they still stock morally 'difficult' works such as 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade, which features paedophilia amongst other things. Lolita by Nabokov is another contentious book. This, to me, is double standards and hypocrisy of the highest order!
My own work never veered beyond the generally accepted boundary of depicting sex between consenting adults, yet my sales are now a fraction of what they once were due to this attack on free speech, as I see it. Not only does it affect authors like me trying to make a living, but deprives many readers of books that they should be allowed to enjoy.
No, erotica titles should not be showing up in searches for 'innocent' things, but that is easily resolved with adult content filters. To ban taboo erotica entirely is ridiculous and unnecessary. Smashwords is now the only retailer that will still sell my more hardcore taboo titles, and who knows how long that may last?
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Sep 24, 2017 11:55PM
Sabotaging honest authors by keeping their work from their readers is unacceptable! This is not the middle ages and people are able to decide for themselves what they do,or don’t, want to read. They don’t need some sad anal type to decide what sells and what doesn’t....Freedom of speech,freedom to read what you want,that is our right. Adult content filters yes,banning no!
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