I?m a Smashwords author and I think what these self-appointed morality police are targeting are works specifically written to titillate. Anyway you cut it, however, it?s still censorship, and it stinks?and we need to combat it?but I think they?re attacking Erotica as a genre, and the abuse of these themes within the genre, rather than the depiction of these themes themselves. Remember, back in the Seventies and Eighties, when all of these themes were woven into mainstream works, and nobody cared; and some of us only read the dirty bits? Maybe we?re still stuck back there, when you have to splash something with the veneer of art?or literariness?for it to fly. I?m so tempted to write a ?literary? novel involving all these themes, explicitly described. I may yet do that. Or a ?mystery.? Or a ?historical romance? (set in 1982). We have entered the era of coy quotation marks.
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Dark Days
I?m a Smashwords author and I think what these self-appointed morality police are targeting are works specifically written to titillate. Anyway you cut it, however, it?s still censorship, and it stinks?and we need to combat it?but I think they?re attacking Erotica as a genre, and the abuse of these themes within the genre, rather than the depiction of these themes themselves. Remember, back in the Seventies and Eighties, when all of these themes were woven into mainstream works, and nobody cared; and some of us only read the dirty bits? Maybe we?re still stuck back there, when you have to splash something with the veneer of art?or literariness?for it to fly. I?m so tempted to write a ?literary? novel involving all these themes, explicitly described. I may yet do that. Or a ?mystery.? Or a ?historical romance? (set in 1982). We have entered the era of coy quotation marks.