Author’s Note: I am not taking sides, or trying to create a response/forum for this subject. I am just letting you who read my blog know what I see, what I think, what I feel and where some (though few) of my limits in life are and what actually makes me pause.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Jonathan Swift – A Modest Proposal (1729)
I was told tonight about a book called “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure” by an author named Phillip R. Greaves 2nd, who’s also published a few books about politics or conspiracies. His other books combined don’t have as many reviews/complaints as this one tome, which looks like either a technical book to avoiding law enforcement or making a group like NAMBLA something worthwhile, which is an impossibility. And, NAMBLA still has a current web page and a Wiki page.
(And I just noticed that my browser is moving a little slower than before. Has the FBI found me? Do they think I’m a pedophile? Are they gonna raid my house at dawn? Should I pull down my blog?)
For one book, that’s 2,500 +/- comments, ratings, and complaints. People were/are/or have been threatening to remove their accounts from Amazon & buy elsewhere. With the availability of eBay, Borders and anything else in between, that could hurt them if they actually commit themselves to this action.
But then again, I’m not too sure what to think of this writer. I saw the title of his other book, and there’s a misspelling ON the cover. At the same time, Amazon has come out stating they’re (trying) to make sure censorship is not the issue. After all you really can’t fault someone for bad taste.
I’m sure Bukowski, Thompson, Burgess, Bradbury, Faulkner and many, many other will offend. Middle America and creativity will never see eye-to-eye, but then again, some people hate Catholics, Wiccans, and even those not taking a side on anything.
So how are people picking & choosing their protest? And if you’re trying to fight corruption, why aren’t you voting or creating a revolution in the streets? Where’s the vigilante justice or the lynch mob, or even the angry mob wielding torches?
Are we gonna choose sides? Are we gonna point out, they’re right, you’re wrong; I’m right, screw you? Is that what we’ve come to with this crappy book? I think in some ways this harkens back to the old days of blank storefronts with a neon sign saying “Adult Books” and you scanning the streets to see if anyone spots you rushing out of the place with a brown paper bag.
What are the evils we need to fight? What are the monsters we should chase down with a big stick & bludgeon? Have you hidden your copy of the Anarchist Cookbook, or skipped voting, or ran the speed limit, or looked too long in one direction, maybe longing for something you don’t need or shouldn’t have, be it a moral, logical or social obligation?
I think Amazon made a mistake in putting this there or even allowing it to be found by people who don’t know what it contains. According to the author, it’s a series of guidelines for pedophiles, such as there would be a guideline for attack and limits between sharks and swimmers.
It’s idiotic, and I don’t think it’s social commentary or redeeming in any way. But if he publishes it he should be responsible for its’ content. If this is his Utopia, then he needs to be ready for the lawsuits if someone uses it like a step-by-step guide or for any madness and public scorn.
But send it elsewhere. I doubt anyone would take this seriously; if they do it’s probably been secretly written by the NBC Dateline team so they can keep filming idiots chasing children in chatrooms looking to humiliate themselves nationally. And if you’re damned stupid enough to chase children, you should be tarred and feathered. Fantasy, no worries. Reality – that’s asking for a bullet in the ass.
If you look at some of the older (vintage) books published up until the 80’s you’ll find some of these same characters drawn into them: the child who seduces, the overdeveloped teen, and so forth. But they’re all products of fantasy and imagination. They’re not reality. They’re trite, masturbatory and doubtful of any true insight in the mind of a deviate or predator.
And they’re still sold in niche markets, on specialty stores, and in shadowed places where you don’t go without a firewall and Norton security. 20 years since those books came and went and they’re still sought out over and over again.
A few years back I had a blog on Yahoo 360 with about a dozen readers, most of whom also went to the MySpace I had. One morning I spotted something on Yahoo called Shine, which was their attempt to bring bloggers to the forefront and allow them more space to express themselves on a few ideas such as education, sex, and lifestyles, or whatever. So, I posted an idea, maybe thinking the right person could say, This is damned good writing, and maybe want more.
I posted a response for a writer at 830am. By lunchtime I had to restart my account with a new name (thus the homonym instead of the spelling used for afare24get) and I lost everything, from photos and notes, to comments and connections. I spent the rest of the day scrambling like mad to recapture anything from my History file or from my secondary space on MySpace.
I am leery of anything, any promise and cautious, watching to see if my vanilla life will intrude here. I don’t feel like having anyone trying to decipher where I teach, or if any of fantasies correlate with my reality.
If you’re a pedophile and need a guide, you’re a hunter with a gun who doesn’t know how to shoot. If this is satire, it’s done in poor taste with the rising crimes against (or done by) children, either on society, on them or each other. And that’s the damned crime: what are we teaching our kids?
- Argue & hold your breath till you get your way?
- Teachers, clergy and authority figures are not here for your protection but to harm you?
- The rules don’t apply if you don’t get caught? Or it’s not a crime till you’re caught?
- Crimes don’t matter until you’re 18 then we’ll hire a shyster lawyer?
- Have babies; you can live off the government tit?
- It doesn’t matter what others want or think so long as you get yours’ ?
As I continued this blog, I went back on Amazon and looked up a few things. Sure enough, you can get copies of the Anarchist Cookbook, the Poor Man’s James Bond, Caligula (the uncensored one with Tino Brass’ additional smut) and many books created for the idea of maiming and harming humans. Children are sacred, but so is knowledge. Amazon also says they don’t sell porn, but I found Marilyn Chambers’ Insatiable, and Behind the Green Door, plus a few others. That brought me a good chuckle. You can’t deny what those movies are and you can’t deny they’re obscure or hidden.
Hell, there was even a category for pornographic movies!
The Westboro church is going to protest a few more funerals of our fallen brave, and we, as a country, are in a quagmire where the rich continue to skate past the poor with tax breaks and assistance that can be handed off through the use of politics and shady connections.
Maybe Amazon needs a porn section. They cry freedom of speech, and they promise no censorship, but they also have a series of books that can’t be seen as redeeming in any way. Kinda like HBO or Showtime After Hours programming. If you don’t have a membership or are a prude don’t come in here.
Right now I don’t know what to really think. I’m confused at best. Maybe it’s not time to make any decision but to be informed, to be sure of what I am talking about.
Maybe I’m just worried: what could be considered trashy, stupid or meaningless? Could my blog or erotic stories fall in to that same category, and some unseen hand-of-the-cyber-gods sweep it away? Or is this paranoia striking me hardest and deepest in my soul, not wanting to start over again after working so hard to create something where I feel freest and right?
More than anything, I’ve been trying to open an on-line studio or gallery. That was my surprise. That’s why I’ve started posting the new headings with the warning for Adults Only. I’m not talking smut, just maturity.
That’s where I fear, like seeing the link disappear in a matter of hours, my old life will change. But if I am going that far, then I need to be ready for anything.
And for that I need to read more, write more and gamble more with my thoughts and feelings.
Take care everyone.
Links below where I got some of my info or pics.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amazon-customers-threaten-to-boycott-over-pedophile-guide/ - news article regarding this book/e-book.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/11/pedophiles-guide-stirs-amazon-controversy.html - another article about this book/e-book
http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20101111/%E2%80%98pedophile039s-guide%E2%80%99-availability-stirs-outcry-against-amazon-id-10141234.html – with comments from the author which are quite hilarious & idiotic.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/11/pedophile.guide/ - Anderson Cooper with lots of information about this subject, and from what he says he may have bought a copy or been given one to read as there are more details than what was on the website.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller – who should we defend?
http://www.godhatesfags.com/ - Westboro Baptist Church
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html - A Modest Proposal by Swift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech - Explanation of this phrase misused every day.
http://www.adec.edu/admin/papers/fair10-17.html - standards of fair use for educational purposes.
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html - fair use as defined by copyright law.
All images taken from websites with only the intent of creating information, not to infringe on any copyrights or electronic-copyright. All this is being done solely for educational purposes.
