🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4kglfl$okr@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Fred Moore <fmoore@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
> Matthew Gaylor (freematt@bronze.coil.com) wrote:
>
>: NOTE:  I've read the banned trilogy, and I thought they were beautifully
>: written, I can't imagine why the library would pull them off the shelves.
>: The novels are erotic, but very tastefully written.
>
>I have not had the opportunity to read these books by Anne Rice. However,
>CML _does_ lend books by both Lawrence Sanders and Danielle Steele. Its
>difficult for me to imagine Rice's books as being more explicit than
>these pulps.

I am not in favor of banning books, but as someone who *has* read
two of the three books, they are easily far more pornographic than
anything that the average reader of Lawrence Sanders or Danielle
Steel could imagine in their most fevered dreams.  They are (relatively)
mild S&M erotica, pure and simple.  I agree that they are
"tasteful" as porn goes, but just how tasteful can scenes of
boys being impaled up their asses by marble dildos be?  Perhaps
someone at the library should have done some homework before
ordering them in the first place.

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