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Amazon, dubcon, kink, M. Keep, PayPal, pseudo-incest, taboo, taboo erotica
I write the niches that I know and love. Rape and incest are on almost every ‘no list’ out there, but readers want it. Regardless of what you think about the kinks, erotica is fiction, and those people deserve their kinks catered to as well.
And who better to do it than someone who really, really gets hot about it? I get dozens of hits each week to The Keep from search terms like “rape erotica” and “incest stories” and “taboo smut”, and I want to deliver.
Sure, I write lots of other things – we’re also one of the top results for “fantasy erotica” for a reason – but I’d say about ¼ of what I have in my ‘to-edit’ file is ‘dubious consent’, incest, or all out rape.
I wanted to blog about this because it was a year ago that there was a call to arms about PayPal, about how it was treating companies that sold erotica, and how it made so many people rise up. People understood this was fiction, and should be protected, and they were angry about a corporation trying to force other corporations to agree with their morals.
Yet it died down, and people are once more comfortable, but they shouldn’t be. None of us should be. How long until one of the corporate bodies decide they want to get rid of pseudo-incest? Already it’s been filtered by Amazon, joined by ‘Dubious Consent’ and ‘Reluctance’, hidden away like a dirty secret. And that would be fine, if Amazon were open about these filters, about how they hide them away from people searching for them.
We absolutely should not be comfortable. This is the time, when companies are comfortable with our apathy, that we should be pushing. We need more sub-genres in erotica. With over 80k kindle books, one category is not enough.
We need to demand transparency in how they’re filtering things.
We need to demand more rights, not become comfortable with the ones we’ve already lost, for that’s only going to make them want to take more from us. Why wouldn’t they, when they know how easy we are to placate and how quickly our fury dies out?
A year afterwards, and the only people complaining about Amazon are pockets of people who are defeated and tired. Amazon pays our bills, and we don’t want to piss them off – but we pay theirs too. Over 80k books in erotica. How much money does Amazon make off us every day while still trying to pretend it doesn’t want us there? They’re simultaneously denying us and profiting off of us, and we need to tell them that people are okay with erotica! People want to be able to find it, and to be able to browse it by categories and kinks! We shouldn’t have to come up with our own schemes for manipulating search results so that when people search “Scifi Erotica” they can actually find us.
Amazon knows how long our fury lasts. Not even a year. They can out weather any storm that lasts a month or two, but if we keep pushing, they’ll know we don’t want to be denied – as readers and writers of erotica – any longer.
To send Amazon your thoughts on erotica, categories and filtered search results, contact them here: ecr@amazon.com
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I think the key here is transparency. They either want to sell certain content or they don’t. If they sell it they should eb open about selling it and stand up for both their right to sell it and our writes to read and write it.
Of course Amazon, and other companies, want to have their cake and keep it. They want to make money selling what poeple want to buy, but they don’t want the hassle of dealing with protests from minority pressure groups who can claim moral indignation and boycott all of amazon’s products just because of a certain category of fiction offends them.
This is exactly my problem. They love the money, but they want to act like they’re supporting us reluctantly so that a small group of people won’t protest them.
It makes it very frustrating, and I wonder how much it actually helps.
Is there some sort of erotica ebook website where they sell exclusively erotica? I mean, there are kids going on Amazon, so I *sort of* get why they would want to try and keep the content more family friendly. Although they already do have erotica stories, don’t they. Ahhh! I don’t know, lol. I guess they need to adopt the policy of either accepting no erotica whatsoever, or all erotica, regardless of type.
There are some, but they also have strict rules on what they will and will not accept (such as All Romance eBooks). Others won’t allow indie works, still.
Besides, with things like this, Amazon is the big one. Most people make a good deal of their money from Amazon, so obviously their customers want to be able to buy erotica there. I wouldn’t be opposed to them having an adult filter, but it should be transparent and easy to find.
Couldn’t they even have a sub-section of Amazon dedicated to adult content? So if you type the name of an erotica ebook you’re looking for into the normal search filter, nothing will come up — you’d have to go to the adult section of the site. Or maybe the CEO of Amazon is just a prude, lol.
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The simple answer is for amazon to create a filter like what Smashwords has. Turn the adult content filter off and you get to find your favorite erotica. Turn it on and little Jimmy and Suzie can find their children’s stories and unscrupulous YA (that doesn’t seem to receive even a sideways glance) without mom and dad having to worry about the smut.
It’s the best of both worlds and would in the end make everyone more money. Too bad Amazon is too damn stubborn to even try it.
It really would be that simple, in my opinion.
Amazon is really all over the map. Works by a well known writer of erotica, that got snipped by the “no incest” rule, are right back there. One that I had my eye on, searching for months, and suddenly, here’s the second edition printing, the orginal, all incest intact edition, on Amazon! It’s still there! Might it be selling like the proverbial hotcakes, and when it does that, the money speaks a lot LOUDER than some tight ass with an axe to grind against erotica, perhpas?
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