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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I don't think erotica should be sold on mainstream sites where it can be accessed by children. I would not knowingly give a gift card to anyone for a site with (IMO) iffy content. They might pass it on to someone else.
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What do you mean, "accessed by?" Children can't legally buy from Amazon; they can't agree to be bound by the TOS, and they can't have credit cards.
Also, there is no legal age limit on erotica texts (nor any other kind of text) in the US. You are welcome to decide what's appropriate for your children to read; you are not welcome to decide what my children should have access to.
I'd prefer if my kids weren't exposed to books with overtly Christian themes until they're 18--think I can get local bookstores to agree to keep those books behind the counter? After all, a parent has the right to direct a child's religious education--doesn't that mean nobody should provide religious materials to a child against the parent's wishes? (Certainly they often think so when it's Pagans providing literature to children from Christian families.)
I am, however, unconcerned about my children reading about sex. I'd much prefer they read about it than experimented blindly. Even reading bad depictions of sex (lurid purple prose with anatomically impossible positions) is less worrisome to me than reading graphic depictions of violence--which we've established can give them nightmares. Yet nobody seems to be willing to remove trauma-inducing books from my children's view.
Of course, there's a collection of erotica available for free at
Project Gutenberg. Do you steer people away from that site so that kids don't discover it?