Originally Posted by Spitman
I agree that this site needs to adopt a stricter policy. This library is an important resource for those who enjoy, and want to share stories and ideas, whether fantasy or not, that involve bdsm. At present it appears that there is a lot of material in the library that depicts the violent and sexual abuse of children, contrary to the library’s stated policy.
I don't happen to believe that legislators have got their argument right. The dividing line between material that is allegedly conducive to offending behaviour, and material that is pure adult fantasy, is not drawn by establishing a specific and numeric age limit. Doctoring stories to massage the stated ages upwards will not solve the problem if the young characters are described in such a way that makes the stated age nonsensical, when it remains clear that the story describes the violent or sexual abuse of a pre-pubescent child.
A case in point is the story, 'The Wheel', which has just been added to the library. The story is a particularly graphic depiction of the kind of execution that did actually take place not so very long ago, in historical terms. It is also the story of a judge, one who might be regarded as a pillar of society, who is an abuser of girl children, and uses the law to destroy them once they become a little too old for his taste.
If underage characters are not allowed, we have a problem with this story. The women who are executed are described as sexually mature, even though we can question exactly how mature. The problem is the little girl who sits naked on the judges lap and allows him to abuse her, while they watch the executions.
In this particular case, telling the reader that the little girl is actually 24 years old does not solve the problem, because by decribing her as a ‘little girl’ with a ‘hairless pussy’ there is a clear suggestion of pre-pubescence, even though breasts are mentioned. The only way to ‘clean up’ the story is to remove all references to that character, or change the description to remove the combination of the words ‘little girl’ and ‘hairless pussy’.
Unfortunately, if any such changes are made, that will destroy the theme of the story. The judge is not described sympathetically, what happens to the little girl is not described in any detail, and she seems to be consenting. The central theme of the story remains the executions, and one of the girls who is executed is the central character in the story.
What we have here is actually a legitimate reason for including a description of an underage character, rather than something written to appeal to paedophiles, and the story also manages not to mention a specific age for any of the characters.
So if this story is allowed to remain, what kind of material should not?
Let’s look at a story, ‘The Perils of Pauline at Christmas’. This story involves a man dressed as Santa raping and strangling a ten year old girl, and enjoying it. It is non-consensual, brutal and unashamedly paedophilic, and its only merit is that it is a good example of the kind of thing that I would rather not find on this website.
Let’s also consider a story called Our Fun With Little Crystal. This is a non-consensual story in which a pubescent girl is kidnapped from a playground, tortured, orally raped, asphyxiated and revived, presumably in preparation for a vaginal rape in a subsequent chapter. Terms like ‘her small, growing tits’ and ‘still playing with stuffed animals’ make it clear that the victim is underage. All the way through the words ‘little’ and ‘young’ are interspersed with language saying how much fun this is, and it is clear that the child will eventually be killed. The age of the girl is not mentioned, but we are left in no doubt that this is a particularly nasty piece of paedophilia.
I think these are good examples of the kind of material we can do without. If we get this right, we will be protecting authors who might occasionally have a legitimate reason for including an underage character in a story.
