Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

What I can't understand is, why so many people bought the book after so many people slated it!!

Photocraig

Flattery like that might get you EVERYWHERE!
Keep it UP!

Photocraig

You did, and this forum includes, presumably, some of the target audience. In a free society, everyone makes their own decisions and is held accountable for them. Writing, Publishing, Selling, Distributing, Reading and Buying and OPINING are all acts of free will. Exercise them according to your values and account for them as your conscience dictates.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

I recall living in Leesburg FL, that the owner of the Video store told me that the "adult" section made over half his business. In that town there was a church on just about every corner.... humm after sunday service lets get a 6 pack and a porno movie must have been the order of the day!! Sin, Less He Shall Have Died In vain

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

His purpose is to make money off of other's wishes to "get laid".

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Yeah that's the ticket. Let's start banning books because we find the subject repulsive!! Imagine the inconvenient books we can get rid of. The bible for instance, many people dislike it. And it is the cause of so much social friction, and the Koran too. And while were at it how about getting rid of political opinions we don't agree with (already in process). And we should start prosecuting people for thought crimes. If someone talks about writing a book like that they obviously have been thinking about it. Throw them in jail!! We can include politically incorrect opinion too! How much simpler life will be when we all think exactly alike.

If you haven't figured it out the paragraph above was satire.
Definition: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/satire

Ok the subject is repulsive and the author is a cad. So vote with your $. Don't buy the book. If nobody buys it he will never write another book with that publisher. You can also express your displeasure to the publisher. They care about what customers think. Both are effective and neither are destructive to a free society.

digit-up Loc: Flushing, Michigan

So, you must be a liberal democrat, ...Ya wanna "ban" something because you PERSONALLY believe it to be wrong for all of us, if it's wrong where you're concerned. Typical. I know nothing of the book you mentioned, and You could agree, "That, I know nothing, but WHO/WHAT makes you the arbiter of anything? Good luck with your MISSION to have it banned, but I hope that folks like you can NEVER ban anything from other folks. Good reading, and have a nice day. BOB

MacGregor Loc: North America

Doesn't sound liberal to me. Sounds Trumpian right wing. (Wait for it...)

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Exactly!!!

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Sorry to have to tell you this, the ACLU is not an arm of government, their mission is different. You say "Nope" and yet you confirm my position that "some would say" since you yourself have said it in the past. What I actually believe is different that what I think others say. My thoughts run more along the lines of: The real role of government is to balance the abilities of people to be a**holes with the abilities of other people to be a**holes.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

[quote=dsmeltz]Sorry to have to tell you this, the ACLU is not an arm of government, their mission is different. You say "Nope" and yet you confirm my position that "some would say" since you yourself have said it in the past. What I actually believe is different that what I think others say. My thoughts run more along the lines of: The real role of government is to balance the abilities of people to be a**holes with the abilities of other people to be a**holes.


Duh! Gee, I know the ACLU isn't gvt, and I never said it was*. But they claim they defend civil liberties, period, yet in the end they almost always defend the liberal/progressive/PC side of things.
And for those who don't know what is going on - my Nope was nope you aren't the only one who says that, not nope it isn't that way. (I get tired of people who don't read the whole thread asking about things that have been covered at least once.)

*One of our main problems today is that many in government have the idea that their job is to use the power of the government to push their own personal view of things. They of course are right and any of us who disagree are stupid, crazy, wrong or evil.

gessman Loc: Colorado

uh, have any of you folks who want to have Amazon ban a book about seduction not seen the multiple daily spam fliers from Amazon and Groupon, an Amazon subsidiary, showing "adult toys?" Perhaps you might want to do a search on both sites before you have a go at Amazon about that book if you'd like to have some semblance of an estimate as to your potential success.