Removing underage stories

[Carnivale Ed]

Let's quit pussy footing around here, ok? Many of the stories posted at that site were to satisfy the perverted fantasies of infantophiles, that's my understanding of the issue.

You can veil it with all kinds of terminology, young, under age, etc.. but it's much more than that, and it is what it is.

Given the subject matter, I'm not really sure I want to wade any further into this debate, but I feel compelled to, because I'm not sure it is actually as simple as you would make it, Alex.

The point's been well made above, but it bears repeating. We're talking about fiction. No child is actually being harmed here. That distiction, to me, is everything. This is, ostensibly, a site for writers of the particular genre broadly defined as BDSM, and the people who enjoy reading such. A section of that audience may, indeed, be 'infantophiles' as you claim, but to characterise them as 'perverted' is almost meaningless in this arena, given all of the other taboo subjects featured on the story site. They can all be interpreted as perverted, it just depends on who's doing the interpreting. As long as no real children are involved, a person's particular fetish is none of my business.

I guess my point is this - I've spent my life reading everything I can. In my mind, I've been to Roissy with O, to NY with Holden, and to the depths of Hell with Dante. I just find it sad that now there's a place I can't go, no matter how distasteful I might have found the trip.

'It is what it is?' It's a limit on my imagination, that's what it is, the one thing that should have no limits.

Hope I haven't offended.

I'm up to four cents, now, I think.

CE