This is ridiculous, not to mention I think PayPal is acting illegally here since what somebody buys is none of their business. Does this mean they will take sex shops off their list of customers too? Will DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover become uncatalogued again because it talks about fucking instead of lovemaking. I'd like to know who's behind PayPal's unilateral decision. Fiction does not instigate behavioural patterns moral or amoral, because if that were the case, maybe they should read the Old Testament of the Bible. It might not be explicit but it does talk about incest, rape. Are they going to ban the books about Ancient Greece and Rome where gay/lesbian sex not to mention incest were considered acceptable. Nobody and I mean nobody over 18 should be banned from reading anything and I mean anything. If you don't like gay sex then don't read it, you don't like fiction dealing with incest don't read it, etc., etc., and of story. PayPal's attitude is in line with that of the Spanish Inquisition and countries with dictatorships. Like Kate said they want to get their facts straight about BDSM, among others. Coercion of freedom is intolerable. If they start here, who's to say they won't start banning DH Lawrence, Shakespeare, Stephen King, etc., for reasons similar.
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:01 am (UTC)I'd like to know who's behind PayPal's unilateral decision. Fiction does not instigate behavioural patterns moral or amoral, because if that were the case, maybe they should read the Old Testament of the Bible. It might not be explicit but it does talk about incest, rape.
Are they going to ban the books about Ancient Greece and Rome where gay/lesbian sex not to mention incest were considered acceptable.
Nobody and I mean nobody over 18 should be banned from reading anything and I mean anything. If you don't like gay sex then don't read it, you don't like fiction dealing with incest don't read it, etc., etc., and of story.
PayPal's attitude is in line with that of the Spanish Inquisition and countries with dictatorships.
Like Kate said they want to get their facts straight about BDSM, among others.
Coercion of freedom is intolerable.
If they start here, who's to say they won't start banning DH Lawrence, Shakespeare, Stephen King, etc., for reasons similar.