From "Dining for Dignity", link below
"Tonight it was brought to my attention by @coraliealison twitter account that Barnes & Noble is selling graphic porn books promoting child rape, child exploitation and daddy/ daughter rape! The titles are so filthy, the pictures so graphic and the descriptions so sexual that I can't even post! Will you write B&N via FB, Twitter and email demanding they remove this filth from their site. Our children have easy access to B&N on line, and this is unacceptable. Our young children should be safe when they log into B&N online and not see dozens of books glamorizing INCEST with hard core pictures and filthy descriptions!
Having looked at the Barnes & Noble Website, there are some truly disgusting titles available there. Some examples being
"Daughter Rape: Sex in the Kitchen with Daddy"
"Daddy Rapes the Virgin Daughter on the Bus "
"Grandfather Fucks His Unwilling Granddaughter "
With at least one of the authors being (according to a Google search) "banned from Amazon".
Please join D4D in contacting Barnes & Noble, and asking questions. There are no age restrictions on their site, and apart from the promotion of incest, sexual exploitation and rape, these sort of books should NOT be available for any age to view. They have Twitter & Facebook accounts, or if you are like me & prefer e-mail, this can be found quite easily.
"Dear Sir,
Please can you answer a couple of questions on some books I have found for sale on your website.
A couple of examples are as follows:
Daddy Rapes the Virgin Daughter and Friend at Home,
The Daughter Rape: Sex in the Kitchen with Daddy,
Daddy Rapes the Virgin Daughter at the Cemetery,
These books are all freely available for anyone to view and buy online from your website. Appreciate that they all have "18+" next to them, but what exactly is to stop children accessing them?
Added to this, is the graphic content of the books, namely incest, sexual exploitation and fathers raping their daughters. Please can you let me know what guidelines there are for authors who have their books available to sell on your website. I find it hard to believe, that for example, one of the authors has books "banned by Amazon" (a quick Google search will validate this), yet they are allowed to be freely sold on Barnes & Noble.
A couple of examples are as follows:
Daddy Rapes the Virgin Daughter and Friend at Home,
The Daughter Rape: Sex in the Kitchen with Daddy,
Daddy Rapes the Virgin Daughter at the Cemetery,
These books are all freely available for anyone to view and buy online from your website. Appreciate that they all have "18+" next to them, but what exactly is to stop children accessing them?
Added to this, is the graphic content of the books, namely incest, sexual exploitation and fathers raping their daughters. Please can you let me know what guidelines there are for authors who have their books available to sell on your website. I find it hard to believe, that for example, one of the authors has books "banned by Amazon" (a quick Google search will validate this), yet they are allowed to be freely sold on Barnes & Noble.
Obviously Free speech and adult subjects are one thing, but profiting by books that are themed on incest, rape, exploitation and sexual abuse (all illegal) is a completely different thing. Please will you consider removing such titles from your range, or at the very least, have them "hidden" from general view with access being permitted after an age-verification and user-login.
I have discovered that I am not the first person to complain in such a way, and I will be strongly advocating that people boycott your site until action is taken by yourselves to rectify the above.
Many thanks."
Thank you for your e-mail.
ReplyDeleteAs booksellers, we carry thousands of books whose subject matter some may find offensive. Over the years, we have received countless requests and demands to stop selling everything from The Merchant of Venice to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, even The Living Bible.
At Barnes & Noble, we take our mission very seriously - to be a valuable resource to our customers, bringing books and ideas to the public. We live in a diverse culture, and that diversity is reflected in the wide range of interests, philosophies, and lifestyles of our customers. The guiding principle we use is to offer every book in print and allow our customers to decide what to buy and read. After all, freedom of choice is at the very heart of our democratic society. It is understandable that some people may strongly oppose the content of a particular title and choose not to purchase it; we respect their opinions. In return, we ask that our customers respect our responsibility to offer a selection of reading materials as diverse as the society in which we live - the very society that grants the freedom for these materials to exist.
Sincerely,
Thank you, appreciate your response,
DeleteI fully understand the reasoning behind the choice you make to sell such books, however I have one issue with this.
With such titles, the subject and graphical descriptions of fathers raping their daughters (seriously, I find it hard to believe that you get a huge demand for these types of books?), why is there not an age-verification that these are stored behind? Surely as a responsible website, you must appreciate that people of all ages browse through your selection of books, including children. I have children of my own, two of them avid readers (and well under eighteen), and I would be absolutely mortified if they were looking for books to read and happened upon books like this. At least one of these authors have the notoriety of "being banned by Amazon", so at least one major seller appreciates the harm that these can cause.
Please can you let me know if this is something that can be considered - the internet is full of dangers enough as it is, without a site that sells children's books alongside such graphic, pornographic and quite honestly, disgusting incest & rape-filled books like this.
Until you find a satisfactory resolution for this that encompasses something like an age-verification or similar, I will continue advocating boycotting your site.