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Originally Posted by GlennD
Where do you get the idea that filtering adult content is homophobic?
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Filtering same-sex erotica but not opposite-sex erotica is homophobic.
Categorizing children's books that deal with homosexuality as "adult" is homophobic.
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Yes, they had an issue recently where more than 50,000 books got labelled as 'adult' and the books that got noticed were gay/lesbian related.
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And books dealing with disabilities and sexuality. Interesting how when gay people or disabled people try to get laid, that's "adult themes," but the Playboy centerfold collection wasn't. The homophobic logic is pretty obvious there.
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And, it was resolved within a couple of days. It boggles my mind that a store that sells very adult books, movies, toys and other items specifically targetted at gay and lesbian customers would be labelled as homophobic simply because those items don't come up in a default search from the front page.
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Being willing to sell to less-desirable customers in a back room is just as much bigotry as refusing to sell to them at all.
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Amazon does continue to filter adult tagged books. They are under no obligation to even carry adult products, much less display them in every search.
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The issue isn't whether Amazon should filter adult products--it's what they're choosing to call "adult." Why is romance between two high school boys more "adult" than that between a high school boy & girl?
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By filtering, Amazon has made the bulk of their store kid-friendly.
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Amazon, unlike convenience stores, has no children as customers. You have to be 18 to buy from them. I understand they want minors to be able to view their content, if not purchase it, but as children can't make purchases there at all, there's much less reason to filter the searches.
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You can, by narrowing your search terms, find adult content to your heart's content - you just have to be looking for it.
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No, you can't. Searching for a specific title that's listed as "adult" won't turn it up in a general search. You have to know not only title or author, but specific category that Amazon's placed it in. "Narrow your search terms" shouldn't mean "wade through the search engine's categories in the hopes of figuring out where they've hidden what you're looking for."