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“I don’t want to read this” is totally valid.
“This is disgusting to me” is totally valid.
“I don’t want to read this because it is disgusting to me” is totally valid.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
Unless it’s like… Illegal or immoral. You can read that fae kinky story for all I care but if you bring a child, an animal or a dead body into this then it’s not going to end well for you.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
Necrophilia, pedophilia and zoophilia are illegal in most countries. I do not think that it is so far fetched to say that no one should read and/or write about a theme that is illegal.
And I am talking about this three subjects being the main ‘appeal’ of the book. Reading and/or writing a book about a child getting abused like in the book Lolita from Vladimir Nabokov is okay, i’m not saying otherwise, since it’s clearly meant to show that this is not something that is okay, it is to criticizing the abuser.
A book in which a human being is having intercourse with a dead body (not a vampire or a zombie, an actual dead body) and it is portrayed as “sexy” or “appealing” in another way than to criticize it should not be okay. Romancizing necrophilia is not only disgusting, but clearly immoral. Same for pedophilia and zoophilia.
I’m not saying that you are wrong in the OG post, I just wanted to put a limit to the last sentence. Yes anyone and everyone is free to read and/or write about the themes they like, but again I don’t think that it is far-fetched to say that this kind of illegal content is not valid to be written about in a positive light.
You’re missing my point entirely.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
Period. No exceptions.
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