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Originally Posted by altworld
I think Paypal's problem is not rape as as subject matter to be explored, but rape written to excite, to ermm titillate,
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Like in
A Clockwork Orange, or
Fanny Hill, or
Venus in Furs, or, less famous works,
Pin by Andrew Neiderman (also includes incest),
My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews (also underage)... of course, those last two are marketed as "thriller" or "horror" instead of erotica, as is Clockwork Orange, and the other two are "classics."
Is the real issue rape-for-titillation (a topic that fuels the fantasies of
about 40% of women, so it's hardly a rare pervert's kink), or is it rape
in books labeled 'erotica'?
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if you are exploring it as serious piece of work with the after effects that goes with it you will be fine.
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So... titillating the reader means it can't be a serious piece of work? There's no artistic talent, no literary insight, involved in manipulating the reader's emotions toward something they absolutely don't want in real life?
Why is titillation about rape a bad thing, but (random example) imagining living in the middle ages--with disease, rotten food, and an infant mortality rate of 30%--is considered a perfectly reasonable topic for literature? What makes it reasonable to daydream about living in a time & place that would in actuality make the daydreamer miserable, but it's not okay to daydream about sexual acts that the daydreamer doesn't actually want to happen?
PayPal--and many of their supporters--seem to be incapable of distinguishing between fiction and reality; it's like they believe that what people want to read about & imagine is what they want to happen in their lives.
I've enjoyed working at Renaissance Fairs, and pretending to be a 16th-century merchant's wife; I have no interest in living in a place and time with no antibiotics, no effective birth control, and no germ theory. Likewise, I've enjoyed reading & thinking about a world where business meetings all end in drugged orgies--but that doesn't mean I want my job to install beds in the conference rooms.