Amazon = Morality Police?

Update the First: So it's not not just books with sex in them. Anything labeled GLBT has gotten the axe. Young adult novels with gay or lesbian protagonists and no sex anywhere in the text have been pulled from the rankings and search functions. Classics written by DH Lawrence are gone, baby, gone. Oh, and even Well of Loneliness, a Victorian era lesbian novel is gone. That novel's offensive and adult sex scene? Oh, yeah, it consists of this one line: And that night they were not divided. Oh my god! Such filth! Get the eye bleach!

Hey, but you can search for Playboy and get an eyeful of the raunchiest big-boobed ho-bags hosed down with baby oil but Heather Has Two Mommies, a children's book for crying out loud, is verboten. Vibrators and anal dildos? Oh, yeah, totally available. Foucault's History of Sex? Nein! Alan Moore's Lost Girls (aka kiddie-porn esque graphic novel)? A-OKAY!

Really, Amazon? Really?

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So some fucknut at Amazon has made the decision to pull all sales ranking of any book with dirty sex or gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered themes. These "adult" books will no longer appear on bestseller lists even if they're number one in fiction or nonfiction. They've even made it impossible to find the latest releases of some of the hottest erotic romance authors like Maya Banks, Jaci Burton, and Larissa Ione/Stephanie Tyler writing as Sydney Croft. What. The. Fuck.

This mindfuckery is off the chain. Who appointed Amazon the morality police of what books should be easily searchable and purchased? This kind of censorship seriously chaps my ass. Why is that the people who object so loudly to books with sex or the gays (oh noes!) have to ruin it for the rest of us? Jeez, get a life!

If you'd like to see what authors are affected by this check out Dear Author's post which includes links and comments from many people in the business.