I know, I know, but…

This is a repost of my response to a plea on Fictionmania to remove all the disgusting material. I’ll post the plea and my response, then go on to add more of my thoughts:

Can you please remove stories involving under-age people that are sexually graphic, particuarly those by the author Stitch and Eyeball. This author’s particular stories are disgusting and could place subscribers to this site in a dangerous postion, am i right?
Such stories aren’t sweet and go against what fictionmania is about. Keep the sexually graphic content to adults please.
Such content would force me and others to concern our patronage. I am sure it’s a mistake by the moderator, but please remove it. Thanks.

No. I’m not a moderator here, but I don’t ever want to see censorship. There’s a lot of stories I find personally distasteful and hateful on the Internet, and I will not demand or even ask for them to be removed. Why? Because it’s a short step from removing one story to removing my story.

What turns me on is not what turns others on. Fine. But both stories have a right to be here and read by those who want to read them. Because of that fact, they MUST both be allowed to stay. It is not illegal to read. It is illegal to do, and if reading a fanciful account of taking a 6 year old prevents a REAL 6 year old from being raped, then well and good.

To start wholesale removing that which others don’t like, means that eventually someone could object to what I write and what I enjoy, and then they would be removed as well.

Censorship is not the answer. Exercising self discipline to read or not read, that is what should be done. Don’t want to read those disgusting accounts? Fine, don’t read them. Turn your browser to Disney.com and keep playing. Don’t want your children to read them? Then monitor what your children read and block the site or the stories wholesale. It’s the same power parents have over their TVs, over the DVDs, over the games in their children’s lives, and they don’t exercise it. Instead they would rather paint industries who make those things as evil, rather than actually (gaspshockhorror) become parents to their children.

NO censorship. Yes personal judgment.

Mini-Biography:  Joy is a transvestite who has been using her stories as a form of therapy. At this point she has no desire to undergo the full transition, but that might change some day. Read more about her story at My Story on this site.