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Doesn't a fair bit of murder fiction revolve around either justifying the murder or catching the murderer? (I could well be wrong about this, its not a genre I spend much time reading). While most "erotica" doesn't spend any time justifying the act or trying to catch the perpetrator.
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I think it's the "titillation" part that is being used as justification against allowing such "depraved" kinds of erotica.
And on the one hand, I can see the reasoning behind it: while incest, for example (never mind pseudo-incest), would probably involve adult characters, who are free to consent, other and "more gross" sexual fantasy material - rape, bestiality, paedophilia - involves at least one non-consenting party.
And in reality, involving real people (or animals), that would be illegal.
I'm not entirely sure who exactly is harmed in werewolf erotica, or erotic science fiction (aliens would be out too, yes? even humanoid aliens aren't humans, after all?), etc. And as said above, rape fantasy - and other fantasies - exist, and are probably more common than many people realise. Fiction, in writing, is often even considered a safe way for people to engage in those fantasies, I believe.
Re: underage sex in fiction... one thing I wonder about - what exactly is illegal or immoral about erotica featuring, say, 17-year-old characters having consensual sex (especially if the work has been written by someone in a country where 17-year-olds can legally have sex, featuring fictional characters of that nationality - teenagers doing what's legal for them)? That's hardly paedophilia or illegal, surely?
(Disclaimer: I neither read nor write erotica of any sort. I don't even read romance. It's not my cup of tea. I do, however, read murder mysteries - and I believe that some of them end up showing the killer in a positive, sympathetic light. We can and do end up feeling for the killer. So it's a bit puzzling to me why that is somehow
far more acceptable than erotica featuring consenting shapeshifters or werewolves (even if they consent first and turn into animal shape later), consenting step-siblings or consenting 17-year-olds in a country where real 17-year-olds are free to have sex with whomever they want.)