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I would just question what is so offensive, so dangerous, about a piece of fiction. For a start, if one does not want to read it, one does not have to. Second, shock horror, it is not true. It depicts fictitious situations and ideas that some people may not agree with and others may find downright offensive. So does No Logo. So does Lolita. So does Slaughterhouse 5. So do most books, for that matter, if they are any more than totally generic mainstream literature, which does a marvellous job of being inoffensively uninteresting. How can exposure to different ideas be threatening? Surely, readers must be given the benefit of the doubt that they can read a piece of literature without being evilly turned away from the moral majority. May I remind people here that gay people are on the wrong side of the moral majority, too, and we must be careful before we, too, advocate the silencing of a minority voice within our own community.
It would seem to me that demanding the removal of a piece of literature solely because it contains depictions some may find offensive is a descent into intellectual totalitarianism. Let the writing be. Read it, if you wish. Be challenged, if it challenges you. Enjoy it, if you find it enjoyable. Ignore it, if you do not wish to find out your reaction.
To say that the presence of a story destroys the safety of this place is nonsensical. For a start, this is not a 'place' as such. It is a website. A medium of communication through which people who need to can communicate. One cannot be accosted in a back alley by a nasty old man as one finished reading a S/M story. Maybe I'm being thick here, but I have no idea how it is threatening or dangerous to have such a story here. I do not enjoy S / M myself, particularily, but I know many who do, and this does not make them bad people, or dominant or meek in real life. Why can such a piece of writing not abide here. I do not understand.
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