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Healthy Censorship? 10 Books That Have Been Banned, Censored, or Hated as Much as The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure


The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct has caused a wave of criticism, angry Amazon customers, and demands that the online bookseller pull the self-published book from its site. Whether or not you believe Amazon should ban the book, there are plenty of other volumes sold on the discount bookseller’s site that have sparked at least as much controversy. And we don’t just mean illicit novels or racy teenage fiction (although the American Library Association has plenty of those on its most-challenged books lists). We’re talking about books that, like The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure, approach issues of health and law from a non-fiction stance. … More »

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Healthy Censorship? 10 Books That Have Been Banned, Censored, or Hated as Much as The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure

Healthy Censorship: 10 Books That Have Been Banned, Censored, or Hated as Much as The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure


The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct has caused a wave of criticism, angry Amazon customers, and demands that the online book-seller pull the self-published book from its site. Whether you believe that Amazon should ban the book or not, there are plenty of other volumes sold on the discount book-seller’s site that have sparked at least as much controversy. We don’t just mean illicit novels or racy teenage fiction (although the American Library Association has plenty of those on their most-challenged books lists). We’re talking about books that, like The Pedophile’s Guide, approach issues of health and law from a non-fiction stance. … More »

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Healthy Censorship: 10 Books That Have Been Banned, Censored, or Hated as Much as The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure

The Intercourse-Is-Rape Argument: What’s German for Déjà Vu?


I don’t know how to say “déjà vu” in German, but the recent argument between German feminist Alice Schwarzer and Kristina Schroeder, the German Minister of Families, over the nature of hetersexual intercourse is making me feel like I’m in Women’s Studies 101 all over again. (If you haven’t read about it, Schwarzer claimed that sex subjugates women, Schroeder disagreed, and insults ensued.)

In 1987, radical American feminist Andrea Dworkin’s published the book Intercourse, sparking especially strong controversy with comments, like the following, that imply the inherent violence of intercourse: … More »

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The Intercourse-Is-Rape Argument: What’s German for Déjà Vu?

German Feminist Alice Schwarzer Says Heterosexual Intercourse Subjugates Women


In a public feud, Germany’s leading feminist campaigner recently called its minister of families and women “incompetent” and “hopeless” — not what we think of as an empowering way to treat other women, but hey, it’s Germany, what do we know? When we read up on why they’re fighting, though, we started to feel a little more strongly: Their disagreement stems from comments by Alice Schwarzer, Germany’s foremost feminist campaigner, claiming that “heterosexual sex was hardly possible without the subjugation of women.” … More »

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German Feminist Alice Schwarzer Says Heterosexual Intercourse Subjugates Women