What are they putting in the water?
Is it something in the water, or a secret corrosive side-effect of too much reality TV? No compulsory logic classes in first year university anymore? During the whole censorship / PayPal debate, over and over again, I read people equate and confuse real examples of illegal sexual behavior with fiction. Hyperbolic comments like “Well, I’m […]
The Women We Failed and the Ones We Left Behind
There is a hauntingly good post at the New Yorker this week. John Cassidy asks the question “Why Republican Women Vote for Santorum” and offers up an amazingly insightful and frightening response from one of his commenters: About women supporting Santorum: I too find this baffling, and can only attribute it to some form of […]
Experiences Define Us: What Writers Are and What They Do
For those of you who have read along with my journey towards getting accepted into a PhD program, I want to thank you for your sturdy company. I have been accepted into a PhD in Creative Writing program at a university in the UK. I will take a year off teaching to study starting in […]
Just Doing Business: Why PayPal’s Ban is Unethical and Bad Business #censorship #paypal #erotica
With the evolution of the whole furor over PayPal’s move to pressure e-Book sellers into culling their virtual shelves of erotica books containing what PayPal considers to be offensive material, I have noticed the same simplistic defense appear over and over again. Let me quote a commenter on Mercy Pilkington’s blog post on the Good […]
First they came for the erotica writers : PayPal as censor | Remittance Girl | Blog Post | Red Room
First they came for the erotica writers : PayPal as censor | Remittance Girl | Blog Post | Red Room.
Call For Submissions: Transgressive Erotica
This is quoted directly from the blog, by Eden Connor: Transgressive erotica is being targeted. Corporate entities seek to suppress legal content. To limit where your imagination may go, and which piece of plastic your reader may use in order to follow. The ‘Great Smut Purge of 2012′, instigated by corporate morality, has caused vendors to pull legal content from their […]
Eden Connor’s Dirty Mind vs Debit Card Series #censorship #paypal #erotica
In March, Eden Connor began an creative and eloquent response to the PayPal book banning issue. She has invited a number of writers, affected by the ban, to talk about who they are, what they write and why they write it. Although none of us feel that a writer should have to justify why they […]
Defending the Indefensible: Bestiality in Erotica #censorship #erotica #paypal
…if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost. Why defend freedom of icky speech? Neil Gaiman, 2008 This week, I’ve seen a lot of authors, publishers and others turn on their own kind. I’ve read a lot of statements that […]
Why We Write What We Write and Why PayPal Should Butt Out #censorship #erotica
Please hop on over to the very lovely Eden Connor‘s blog and read her series of interviews with banned authors. I am honoured to be the very first of them. Dirty Mind vs. The Debit Card. What I’d like you to do, if you are an author of a banned book, is consider writing about […]
A Dialogue: Visu & Playpal #censorship #erotica
Setting: A darkened room. Two voices on a crackling telephone line Playpal: You want us to do what? Visu: Stop processing payments on those disgusting novels. Not the nice ones. The really raunchy ones, you know? Playpal: Er… raunchy in what way? Visu: You know! The disgusting ones. With the incest and the bestiality and […]