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Originally Posted by caleb72
... Personally, I don't have a problem with the title even though it's clearly provocative.
I can even see a kind of artistic merit in the title depending on the story, but I do have a habit of using fairly harsh imagery in my own writing: ...
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Harsh imagery has it's place, poetry is often quite harsh, it can be part of its power. I'm even willing to believe the author's assertion that his work is not pornography, and for my own part the words of the title do nothing except turn me away, but I can easily see how others could find (even just the first three words of) the title offensive. The title of a book is it's public face, it should be presentable in the forums on which it will be shown - I think this title fails that test. But, having said that, it was the author's choice, just as it's Amazon's choice to stop selling it.