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Originally Posted by GlennD
This isn't entirely accurate. While it's true that you need to be an adult (have a credit card) to BUY at Amazon, minors can and do SHOP at Amazon. My kids look at Amazon all the time, and if they see something they want they come to a parent to try to convince us to buy it for them.
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And they might be interested in _Heather Has Two Mommies_, as it is a children's book. But--oops!--it was labeled as "adult" and disappeared from Amazon searches. Pure accident, I'm sure, nothing to do with homophobia at all, but you can see how these mistaken impressions get started.
Just like all those other books, biographies of people who, among all their other traits and achievements, also happen to be gay or lesbian; books about social and political activism that happen to be aimed at, among other audiences, gays and lesbians; romances whose characters just happen to be gay or lesbian; that kind of thing. Just a coincidence, I'm sure, that the books removed from the searches--which did indeed, as Amazon said, range through many categories--had that one thing in common.
I'm sure your children would be shocked by _Heather Has Two Mommies_ or a biography, or a book about political activism, or a high school romance (ew! kissing!!!). Whereas they'll be very comfortable with The Big Book of Playboy Centerfolds. Which was not removed from the search results. Maybe you should get it for them for Christmas, since it's so suitable for children.
For my own part, I have been choosing my own reading material without having my hand held for a long time now. I would like to have a way to turn nannysearch <i>off</i>, so I can actually find out what's available. I'm fairly plain vanilla in my personal life, but I think I can take it.