What makes fictional writing illegal?

[Deleted member 19066]

What in the fuck...

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[Deleted member 58005]

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I'm sorry, did the topic diverge or something

I was referring to the chapter linked by OP in the first msg

Didn't read the rest

 

[Deleted member 19066]

I was referring to the chapter linked by OP in the first msg

Oh, I didn't read it at all, I didn't see any point.

Tho, the question of banned books and censorship is a much more interesting topic.

 

[TheDylanDrakes]

Confessing to a crime you somehow avoided jail for the first time? Although I can't think of a good example...

 

[Deleted member 58005]

Oh, I didn't read it at all, I didn't see any point.

Tho, the question of banned books and censorship is a much more interesting topic.

Oh, I agree. But I don't know enough about it to be joining the conversation

So I shall be lurking

 

[SakeVision]

Nobody has ever been arrested for writing a story. Except maybe in Communist or Fascist countries where alternative political opinions are punishable by law. Even if you write stories with contents that completely breaks the law, such as rape, robbery, murder, torture and genocide, you still won't be punishable by said laws. Why? Because you didn't actually commit those offenses. Laws understand that there is a difference between fiction and reality.

So what if you write about you nuking the whole state of Alabama? Millions of people died, it's a horrible loss of humanity. But that never actually happened. You never nuked Alabama, nobody died at your hands. So how could you be punished for a crime that never happened?

That said, there have been erotica authors who were arrested, mostly in USA. But they were not arrested for writing erotic stories involving murder, robbery or child exploitation. They were arrested for other offenses, such as carrying drugs or pornographic materials across state borders. The restriction of erotica on a lot of sites has nothing to do with the law, but on trying to make the site PG-13, which means they can get advertising revenue if they ban erotica. Some sites such as Amazon and Storiesonline don't care.

a decade ago, most literotica sites and roleplay forums added sets of arbitrary rules such as "no character under the age of 18". I always assumed that its because of USA laws.
sites such as bluemoonroleplaying, eliquity and last but not least literotica.com. here's one of the rules from literotica:

3. No sexual activity involving bestiality (you can write stories about supernatural beasts like ghosts, unicorns, werewolves, etc.) or underage persons will be considered. For the purposes of this site, the minimum legal age is 18. This site does not publish stories, articles, essays, or other material supporting, encouraging, or defending child abuse and/or exploitation.

Why do they do this if it's legal? After that, most traffic moved to f-list and anonymous boards such as gurochan

 

[Ai-chan]

a decade ago, most literotica sites and roleplay forums added sets of arbitrary rules such as "no character under the age of 18". I always assumed that its because of USA laws.
sites such as bluemoonroleplaying, eliquity and last but not least literotica.com. here's one of the rules from literotica:

3. No sexual activity involving bestiality (you can write stories about supernatural beasts like ghosts, unicorns, werewolves, etc.) or underage persons will be considered. For the purposes of this site, the minimum legal age is 18. This site does not publish stories, articles, essays, or other material supporting, encouraging, or defending child abuse and/or exploitation.

Why do they do this if it's legal? After that, most traffic moved to f-list and anonymous boards such as gurochan

They're not doing this restriction because it's illegal. They're doing it for one of 2 reasons:
1. They want to make a site that everyone can and are comfortable using.
2. They want to prepare for the possibility that laws will be amended, as if the law is amended, it would be a major pain in the ass to sift through their millions of amateur stories in order to make the site legal again.

A third reason is that they want advertising revenue and pornography is hard to get advertising for. Niche pornographic content is even harder to get advertising for.

 

[greyblob]

They're not doing this restriction because it's illegal. They're doing it for one of 2 reasons:
1. They want to make a site that everyone can and are comfortable using.
2. They want to prepare for the possibility that laws will be amended, as if the law is amended, it would be a major pain in the ass to sift through their millions of amateur stories in order to make the site legal again.

A third reason is that they want advertising revenue and pornography is hard to get advertising for. Niche pornographic content is even harder to get advertising for.

besides the obvious reasons why these types of content shouldn't be endorsed, there's the fact that they attracts a particular kind of crowd, and it should be clear why a site wouldn't want some of these crowds as users

 

[SakeVision]

besides the obvious reasons why these types of content shouldn't be endorsed, there's the fact that they attracts a particular kind of crowd, and it should be clear why a site wouldn't want some of these crowds as users

they lost most of their userbase because of that tho

 

[greyblob]

they lost most of their userbase because of that tho

well that says a lot about the site. it's probably on a watchlist

 

[SakeVision]

well that says a lot about the site. it's probably on a watchlist

Watchlist for what, if writing isn't illegal?

 

[greyblob]

Watchlist for what, if writing isn't illegal?

if you're writing sexual content containing children, wouldn't it naturally attract pedophiles? monitoring such gathering sites will eventually lead to someone who doesn't only partake in writing