It has come to my attention recently that there is a petition to stop online retailers from censorship. One book in particular has been yanked off the virtual shelves of B&N, Amazon, and Kobo. Am I upset by censorship? Not really, and here’s why. Since the rise of the Internet the basest, puerile, sex obsessed instincts of people have taken over a great swarth of online interaction. I am horrified by the apparent bottomless need for books that brutalize women sexually. A constant barrage of shock-value torture. There is even a new category–mind fuck fiction. Why do we need so much of this? Why are women who read this trash so in need of fantasizing about being dominated and hurt? The brutalizer is always a stunner, smart and sometimes wealthy. In real life these types of guys are marginal members of society. Fat, poor, and stupid. But of course who would get turned on by reading about a guy like that? Real life is too real. So I’m tired of these books feeding these kinky inclinations of women and crowding out thoughtful literature that makes people behave better. Be better humans. Uplifting instead of descending to the gutter. Let those BDSM books be sold, but on their own sites–call it Smuttybooks.com, Torturepornbooks.com. And keep these books off Amazon, B&N, and Kobo where they mingle with Old Man and the Sea and Old Yeller. Think about it. In bricks and mortar bookstores, there is no porn section.
In the old days, porn videos were rented in a back room away from the Disney movies. Let’s separate that crappy smut again. Because if online sites have banned a book in this day and age of anything goes, it must really have crossed the line. Some guidelines for erotica say no beastiality, no incest. But just type in beastiality in a search engine and see all the sites.
This is such a sad comment on our society. I remember movies where copulation was never shown. Now in movies, we follow women into the bathroom to watch them urinate in what is supposed to be a comedy. How do we fix this? I don’t know but removing smutty books from mainstream online bookstores is a beginning. Unfortunately, there is a market for hard-core pornographic books and they can be written quickly. All you need is a warped imagination and a readership that is addicted to mind fucking.
The human race is capable of so much greatness and we have achieved an enormous amount of breathtaking inventions but for some, the genitals rule their world. I don’t want those people to rule mine.
