How can a government ban written pornography, such as that posted here on Storiesonline.net? Now remember, I said written. I'm not talking about pictures or videos or anything like that and I'm talking strictly fictional here. I'm talking about... for lack of a better word, dirty little stories!
I don't care what the story is about. I don't care if it is:
- a straight romance story, with sex, not too much better or worse, than my mother used to read in her Harlequin Romance novels, sold openly in bookstores all over the country.
- Or young love, showing two teenagers falling in love and growing up to take on the world together.
- Or an incest story where two siblings fall in love, or simply take advantage of the closeness, the ease, the availability of having a sibling right there in the same house.
- Or a rape story where a bad man uses and abuses women.
- Or a story about a teacher, professor, police officer, Military officer or doctor using his or her position of power, and access, to fuck someone in their power, in their sway.
- Or a perverted older neighbor who coerces, blackmails, hires or seduces a beautiful neighbor, whether a married woman or a teenaged girl.
- even a child, preteen or younger, being sexually abused.
Unless it is a criminal, confessing his true life perverse actions, his or her rape of a woman or a child, I don't see how a government can logically, ethically, legally make my favorite, preferred form of pornography, illegal.
If they can stop me from publishing a story about a father screwing his teenage daughter. What argument do they use to justify continuing to allow publishers to publish novels by the likes of:
- Stephen King who murdered dozens of teenagers in just one book, "Carrie". I'm sure there were many more innocent young lives ended in King's many novels over the years.
- Anne Rice. I never read an Anne Rice novel but I saw the Brad Pitt movie based on her book "Interview with the Vampire" many years ago. Kirsten Dunst - who was twelve when the movie came out - having a role in the movie, as a vampire (my apologies to those who haven't seen the movie if that's a spoiler) is proof that like Mr. King, Ms. Rice murdered a child in her book, even if the story wasn't told in the book/movie.
Getting away from horror novelists, how about George R.R. Martin. How many "Children" died, so far, in his "Game of Thrones" novels? Joffrey and Myrcella Baratheon immediately come to mind.
I guess the politicians who are banning our stories, think "It's fine to brutalize, torture and murder innocent teens and children, but you'll be in big trouble, mister, if you have sex with those children first!"
My question for any politician wanting to ban or make illegal our "dirty little stories" is how do you explain your thinking, your logic, on banning stories about sex but you're okay with stories about murder, mayhem and massacres?