Amazon defends 'Pedophile's Guide'

[Holly3278]

You know, I used to love purchasing books from Amazon.com. I don’t think I will anymore after this. This is so incredibly disgusting it just isn’t even funny! I am so thoroughly outraged!!! I heard they took the book down but that is not near enough. They need to apologize to the public for the extreme offense they have caused so many!

 

[stanmaxkolbe]

Amazon Backing Down? ‘Pedophile Guide’ Listing Unavailable After Outrage

An e-book for sale on Amazon.com entitled “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure,” was no longer available from the retailer late Wednesday after shocked consumers across the nation called for a boycott.

The title, authored by Phillips Greaves, was published late last month, according to product details previously available on Amazon.com. It sold for $4.79 on the company’s Kindle Store.
The listing and description of the item was no longer available early Thursday. It was unclear if the item was intentionally pulled.
Read rest of story:
foxnews.com/us/2010/11/11/amazon-pulls-pedophile-guide-amid-outrage/

 

[utah_rose]

You know, I used to love purchasing books from Amazon.com. I don’t think I will anymore after this. This is so incredibly disgusting it just isn’t even funny! I am so thoroughly outraged!!! I heard they took the book down but that is not near enough. They need to apologize to the public for the extreme offense they have caused so many!

Lets hope they do. Up to now I’ve had the greatest admiration for Amazon. What were they thinking!

I think I might write Mr. Bezos a letter. If he publishes this filth, and some pedophile reads it and then commits a sexual crime, I believe that the victim or victim’s parents could sue them if this book was found in his possession. Money talks,

 

[CatholicBoy1957]

Money talks,

But if the author happens to be living out of his car, like some pedos do, when the money talks it says “duh”.

 

[Gift_from_God]

Amazon does not allow porn, but they allowed this.

The news has said that the book has disappeared. Pressure does that

Good job people for pressuring Amazon

 

[Cracker_Mom]

Wasn’t there something like this going on with a large book selling chain a few years back? They had a similar type of book for sale if I remember, & I think it came off the shelves pretty fast after complaints.
I’ll keep an eye on the news before I use Amazon again…

 

[CatholicBoy1957]

I’ve been unsettled about this all night and all day. I do business with Amazon also, and while I certainly hate to see them selling this aforementioned book, I realized that they would still be selling other books that I would find gravely offensive. While I certainly admire your vows to boycott Amazon, I’m not sure how I would be able to follow along.

I just went to Amazon and plugged the word “Gay” into their search engine, and got well over 100,000 results. Just looking at the descriptions in the search results was seriously disgusting to me.

How did you folks decide where to draw the line between immoral and more immoral, what level of immorality you would feel comfortable with, and how much immorality you won’t accept?

No more Amazon for me until they fix this.

I’m with you Mary Gail 36-I’m done with them until something is done and they issue a MAJOR apology.

I feel the same way. I did write an email explaining my disgust at that book and also mentioned the Elizabeth Smart trial going on here in Salt Lake.

She was kidnapped at knifepoint when she was 14 and repeatedly raped by her captor. I asked Amazon if they would like to be responsible for a pedophile like that doing the same thing in response to this book.

I don’t generally believe in censorship, but when it’s dirt call it what it is. This book belongs in the “adult book stores” not on Amazon e-books. This is also a foolish move as people will think twice buying a Kindle for someone for Christmas if this filth is available on their site.

 

[SwizzleStick]

I’ve been unsettled about this all night and all day. I do business with Amazon also, and while I certainly hate to see them selling this aforementioned book, I realized that they would still be selling other books that I would find gravely offensive. …

You make a good point. Even if Amazon isn’t selling this anymore, they certainly have sold and still sell other objectionable books and games. See excerpts from article bolded below.

"Amazon Backing Down? ‘Pedophile Guide’ Listing Unavailable After Outrage

An e-book for sale on Amazon.com entitled “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure,” was no longer available from the retailer late Wednesday after shocked consumers across the nation called for a boycott.

The title, authored by Phillip Greaves, of Pueblo, Colo., was published late last month, according to product details previously available on Amazon.com. It sold for $4.79 on the company’s Kindle Store…
…
…**This isn’t the first time Amazon has sold material that promotes illegal activity. It is currently accepting pre-orders for the hardcover version of “I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons” by Luca Rastello.

Nor is it the first time Amazon has come under attack for selling objectionable content in its store. In 2002, the United States Justice Foundation, a conservative group, threatened to sue Amazon for selling “Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers.” That title is still available through Amazon.

In 2009, Amazon stopped selling “RapeLay,” a first-person video game in which the protagonist stalks and then rapes a mother and her daughters, after it was widely condemned in the media and by various interest groups."**

Entire article: foxnews.com/us/2010/11/11/amazon-pulls-pedophile-guide-amid-outrage/

 

[sojo]

These are the other books promoting the illegal (and immoral) activity of pedophilia that are still on the Amazon site. You can email Amazon through their “contact us” link, and cut and paste this list, demanding they be removed as they have already done with the e-book mentioned here.

Amazon tried to defend their actions based on freedom of speech, but said their policy is not to publish offensive material, pornography or material promoting illegal activity. So its best to emphasize the fact that pedophilia is illegal rather than running on about how disgusting and immoral it is. Mention that part but emphasize that they are publishing material that promotes illegal activity which is against their own policy.

I took the time - will you?

Here’s the list:

Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons

Pedophilia: The Radical Case

Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting

Varieties of Man/Boy Love; Modern Western Contexts

Beyond Hysteria: Boy Erotica on the Internet

Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers

Exporting Hysteria: The Atlanta Witch Hunt

Could They All Have Been Wrong?

We were NOT abused!

 

[CatholicBoy1957]

It looks like the hopes for a boycott are really based on what is, at least for the time being, illegal, and not based on objective moral principles. Got it!

These are the other books promoting the illegal (and immoral) activity of pedophilia that are still on the Amazon site. You can email Amazon through their “contact us” link, and cut and paste this list, demanding they be removed as they have already done with the e-book mentioned here.

Amazon tried to defend their actions based on freedom of speech, but said their policy is not to publish offensive material, pornography or material promoting illegal activity. So its best to emphasize the fact that pedophilia is illegal rather than running on about how disgusting and immoral it is. Mention that part but emphasize that they are publishing material that promotes illegal activity which is against their own policy.

I took the time - will you?

Here’s the list:

Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons

Pedophilia: The Radical Case

Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting

Varieties of Man/Boy Love; Modern Western Contexts

Beyond Hysteria: Boy Erotica on the Internet

Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers

Exporting Hysteria: The Atlanta Witch Hunt

Could They All Have Been Wrong?

We were NOT abused!

 

[PatrickSebast]

I would say I was supporting the boycott, but I haven’t bought anything from Amazon in years so…