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I really don't understand why this is so disturbing to people. Amazon is under no obligation to even CARRY adult books, much less display them in a default search. They make no claim (that I have ever seen, and I just browsed through their front pages to verify) to carry every book ever printed. Yet you can find any of the books that they've filtered by doing a more specific search.
Amazon has made a business decision here. You and I have no idea what a completely unfiltered search looks like. Amazon does. At some point when they were designing the search pages/engines they looked at an unfiltered search and decided that filtering would help them sell more books. A brick and mortar store does the SAME THING - they decide what books are on the shelf when you walk into the store. They'll order anything they've got in their catalog, you just need to ask, but they make sure that the books you see in the store are the ones most likely to sell.
Money talks. Amazon decided that they'd get more money by filtering the initial searches. Vote with your dollars, let them know your opinion. In the end, they'll continue to do whatever they believe earns them the most money.
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