Quote Originally Posted by billjam
Hopefully the policy change has been dropped by the new site owner. Many strong arguments against it have been posted. And banning one kind of story will only lead to pressure to ban others until there is nothing left. The religious right in America is intent on imposing their views on the world to the extent that they are now condemning the White House Christmas card. Do you really think they would be satisfied if we just stopped posting fantasy stories involving "young" characters?
I don't agree that the arguments in favour of allowing pedophilia on this website are persuasive. I would rather not share a 'home' for anything I write with that kind of material, especially as the whole site gets labelled as that kind of site, and that then labels all of us as supportive of it.

The freedom to choose not to publish stories about the abuse of young characters is a legitimate freedom too. You may not want to see it that way, but it is true nevertheless.

I happen to think that if the new site owner chooses to exercise his right to exclude certain kinds of material from his site, he will find that there will be more freedom in other directions. As I have said in previous posts, what makes content objectionable is not so much the precise age of the characters, as the way they are described and treated.