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Yes, but look at Nabokov's Lolita.
A classic. Just.. classic. The lead is hated , yet is smooth and articulate.
If we put on the outside of that book "Caution: This book contains child rape, and focuses on the lead character as a very charasmatic man" , how long do you think before we'd have the radical right trying to ban it? Oh, wait, we already HAVE that.
Now, we'd have them claiming "SEE! Even THEY admit it's pornography for pedophiles. Even THEY admit it's got no literary value!"
We're talking a culture over here that has the highest divorce rates in the world who voted to ban something that wasn't even an option in the name of "saving marriage." If content descriptors were mandatory in books, I can speak for my state in saying outright that a constitutional amendment to the State Constitution banning certain books with certain descriptors would be on the next possible ballot, and it will pass.
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